Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the forest , in glades and clearings , unknown men were burning little piles of leaves so that they could send smoke signals up into the sky . |
| 2 | I could feel tears welling up in my eyes . |
| 3 | He raged at the futility of it , and shouted for help as his blade hissed and crunched , but his arms were tiring and he could feel blood running down inside his tunic . |
| 4 | She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins . |
| 5 | Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture . |
| 6 | With the doors open , I could see Cawthorne walking over to him . |
| 7 | Even now as he stood there by the kitchen table he could see Caspar closing in on the weaker lamb , and he could hear that weird and terrible wailing of Lee 's . |
| 8 | As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground . |
| 9 | Nigel Mott made sure of the three points two minutes from time , and he could see Milton going back to the top of the table this evening . |
| 10 | I could see Malta spread out like a map 15,000 feet below me , and I longed to be down there — just to lie still and die peacefully . |
| 11 | Any method is used that could stop dust getting in to them . |
| 12 | Any push-stick could have sandpaper glued on for additional grip . |
| 13 | Roseanne Barr would make a great Liz during her older , fatter days but could have trouble slimming down for scenes of a 60-year-old Liz in her more glamorous days . |
| 14 | She could hear Maria clattering about with her water buckets in the yard and far off church bells ringing somewhere north of the Arno . |
| 15 | As she opened the front door of 97 , Becky could hear Daphne splashing around in the bath . |
| 16 | She could hear Brian moving about in his study overhead . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a direct result of seeing the need for something different that could allow people to go out to sea no matter what the weather was like outside , that I went to see the lifeboat just over a year ago . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You could let Rose take over for a little . ’ |