Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah you could , you could perhaps get him on that , yes . |
| 2 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 3 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 4 | But anything other than aquiescence with the regent could only tie them into political and ideological knots of Gordian proportions . |
| 5 | Faldo ruined his chances with a 76 on Saturday — and even a 67 on the last day could only put him in joint second place . |
| 6 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 7 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 8 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 9 | Hebbert and McFall do , Hebbert decided , and he persuaded his partner they could not leave it at that after such a long flog up the mountainside . |
| 10 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
| 11 | He believed she did not love him because he was like his father but he could not blame her for this because he knew he was unlovable . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 13 | I could not tell her — I could not hurt her in this way . |
| 14 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 15 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 16 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 17 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
| 18 | Political theories could not provide him with any answers . |
| 19 | Maggie 's face flushed hotly and she was glad that Ana could not see her at that moment . |
| 20 | I moved round to the other windows , but I could not see her in any of the rooms . |
| 21 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
| 22 | They could not use it in real life … |
| 23 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 24 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
| 25 | Robert could not understand it at first , but , after he put his ear back to the window , it resolved itself into two syllables : |
| 26 | I certainly could not deprive them of that . |
| 27 | Often they could not find them at all . |
| 28 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 29 | My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones . |
| 30 | But you could not save me from those who want to harm me . |