Example sentences of "could afford [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's no one in my foster family who could afford to give even a few pounds away , ’ he said , ‘ and I certainly do n't have any rich friends . |
| 2 | I could afford to spend freely enough on a personal level — which was what confused her , I suppose . |
| 3 | Of course one way to make sure there would always be a steady stream of customers in places like Polo Park would be to redistribute income so everyone could afford to shop here . |
| 4 | But the richest rural group , which could afford to save more , paid tax on only 14 per cent . |
| 5 | perhaps , yes , most certainly , she would live here if she could afford to do so . … |
| 6 | A ‘ penny wedding ’ was a marriage celebration , the equivalent of a modern wedding reception , at which the guests who could afford to do so gave a penny or other coin towards employing a fiddler to provide music for dancing . |
| 7 | Most of them looked cold and miserable , and they were the men who had bought meals there when they could afford to do so , men who had helped build up the business . |
| 8 | I do n't think you could afford to do so . |
| 9 | But family life and obligations were not to her liking , and she left home whenever she could afford to do so . |
| 10 | The king was fortunate : he had plenty from whom to choose , and he could afford to take only the best into his service . |
| 11 | The point is , however , that it was there and it was growing ; and no ruler in the uncertain world of the 1530s could afford to ignore even limited evidence of its existence within his country . |
| 12 | No later writer could afford to ignore so well-placed a source . |
| 13 | I like this area I really do actually if I could afford to live here I would . |
| 14 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 15 | Kathleen did n't think they could afford to wait any longer . |
| 16 | With the London shop flourishing the Ashleys could afford to worry less about oppilative buyers . |
| 17 | I played a couple of hundred sons-of-bitches on TV and was making some good money from it so I could afford to buy as much booze as I wanted . |
| 18 | Further motivation came from comments expressed at external training sessions that each Borough could afford to send only one or two people to courses costing £30 plus per person per day , and also from the need for specialised training for non-professional staff . |
| 19 | Meade cites the membership of the ‘ little company of four men and four women who , in 1379 , could afford to provide only a candle to burn during the daily mass at the church of St Nicholas , Great Yarmouth ’ . |
| 20 | All regional styles and all local materials were exterminated except where the well-to-do could afford to build deliberately in the old manner , with the aid of an architect . |
| 21 | She was no longer sure if she could afford to consider just one particular aspect of her pride when there were other far more vulnerable areas , capable of sustaining appalling damage . |
| 22 | One of the biggest challenges was the fact that I had to work quite direct , once the colour was put on it was incredibly difficult to lift off completely and so I could afford to make very few mistakes . |