Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the squadron commanders , and maybe the odd flight commander who again was not flying , invariably pointed out they need not go back to their operational training unit , they could remain and we would send for their kit . |
| 2 | Secondly we could 've or we could accept the status quo and and do what the county council 's suggesting . |
| 3 | Government employees were given the day off to swell the crowd , and Mr Hun Sen emphasised that only his party could guarantee that they would keep their jobs . |
| 4 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
| 5 | In other countries , despite the rhetoric of the Alliance for Progress that stressed social justice , the officials , bureaucrats , agronomists and administrators frequently implemented and supported programmes that could demonstrate that they could bring about higher levels of production . |
| 6 | Authorities could , within clear guidelines , make discretionary payments — for example , to practices on the boundaries of ‘ deprived ’ wards who could show that they would receive payment if enumeration districts were used . |
| 7 | He could feel and he could think but he could n't connect the two . |
| 8 | If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action . |
| 9 | She could see that nothing could harm her , that there was no danger , that danger in so far as it might exist was desirable , and she started to walk , slowly , up the street , looking at those who looked at her , exchanging glance for glance , shivering in the warm April air from a tremulous , hopeful , artificial apprehension . |
| 10 | Already ahead of him he could see that he would marry , and it might be disastrously , he had that in him , but at the moment what he had was Rose Hilaire and Gabriel and it was 1966 . |
| 11 | She could see that he would lose his temper if she pressed him any further , and so she left it . |
| 12 | Corruption could occur or it could prove impossible to induce much positive interest in and enthusiasm for political matters among a population that had no tradition of political involvement and no overt disputation over policies to excite its interest . |
| 13 | I could hope that they 'll leave before dessert , she thought bitterly , as Melissa 's affected laugh rang in her ear for the fourth time . |
| 14 | I could guess that he might have asked me what Gharr had asked — what I was doing on Vadinamia . |
| 15 | It was a terrible world where people could die and nobody would claim the remains . |
| 16 | If I sat still and did not do anything then nothing else could happen that I might have to cope with . |
| 17 | It is an unlikely occurrence but it could happen and we would feel concerned if it did ; indeed , we would probably be unhappy with any sample where the sex ratio differed greatly from that of the whole school . |
| 18 | And I could hear and I could hear and I turned the light on and it would n't come on ! |
| 19 | you know I mean sometimes it is erm so , I mean is there anything that you think , you know , we could change or you could change to , to like improve the situation ? |
| 20 | Now this act can take any form you like , I could go or I can go right , then I 'll go like this , and I want you all give me a great big round of applause . |
| 21 | She had a choice : she could go or she could stay . |
| 22 | I could , I could go and I could go and take if there 's , you know , if they have n't , no nothing awful 's to them I could go and take some pics of those . |
| 23 | It was as if his mind had a finite capacity for lines ; put in more than it could hold and they would start to overflow . |
| 24 | This could mean that they will become major forces driving forward the concept of sport , leisure , cultural and artistic movements during the 1990's . |
| 25 | You asked the question of of what this criterion erm could mean and I 'd suggest that it means the following . |
| 26 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 27 | Before Elaine could add that she would like some as well , the waitress shook her head . |
| 28 | I mean , before , before we got 'im , we could dust and it used to stay all right . |
| 29 | Band member Shawn Stockman adds : ‘ We miss the opposite sex and we all think it would be nice to have someone around , someone that we could love and who would love us . |
| 30 | out the window , she was trying to say oh I really want to go home this weekend , do you think you could ask if I could have one of your exeats and she 's still got one left ! |