Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALES prop Mike Griffiths is facing a suspension that could rule him out of the clash with world champions Australia , after his dismissal in CARDIFF 'S match at Aberavon yesterday . |
| 2 | If a grip could be got on the parcel , maybe she could thread it up between the wood and through ? |
| 3 | But that was on a slower basis than , than he could make it up under the new scheme . |
| 4 | And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers . |
| 5 | You are a sign well able to juggle several balls at once so in many ways the volatile planetary climate could suit you down to the ground . |
| 6 | The appeal at the school that Mrs was supposed to have let Miss White know so she could send it off to the parents to get the money back scanner |
| 7 | you could bring it round to the corner . |
| 8 | Would it be a situation if we asked the Town Clerk and er maybe with the Chairman , it 's a little bit difficult , I think the Town Clerk at this stage , to speak to and then if it seems possible we could bring it up at the Planning Committee meeting and arrange a date to go down and have a look , when we 've actually approached the land owners . |
| 9 | You could pace it out as the length of a grave . |
| 10 | It occurred to her that he could tip her out of the window without any effort at all , and she shrank back . |
| 11 | Instead of tripping over their shoes while doing quick changes , each chair had pockets where they could thrust them out of the way . |
| 12 | I could see him out of the corner of my eye and I thought , I 'm going to stick with him . |
| 13 | She could see him out of the comer of her eye , removing a crystal from his pocket and placing it in her desk reader . |
| 14 | ‘ The shops here are very good , but Dana is inclined to turn her nose up at anything outside London or Paris , so I imagine an hour could see her back at the flat . ’ |
| 15 | I could see it over by the wooden boards that had been nailed across Quigley 's windows . |
| 16 | You will have heard the phrase ‘ I could see it out of the corner of my eye ’ . |
| 17 | You could erm you could , you could stick it in like the bedroom and wait for someone to go in and have a shag |
| 18 | → Do you realise , Steve , that a professional standard , concert classical guitar could set you back in the region of £7,000 , and that orchestral instruments regularly change hands for much more ? |
| 19 | Coming into the event at Walton Heath , Murray was languishing in 71st place on the Order of Merit , but worse than that , he had also been warned that an arthritic condition called spondylitis could force him out of the game in little more than a year . |
| 20 | When I asked my mother what she was doing , she replied : ‘ I thought if nothing were to come of your relationships , I could cut them out of the photographs ! ’ |
| 21 | Japan said that it intended to build up its military forces to a high level so that it could cut them down in the interests of peace . |
| 22 | George was impressed with the new man 's knowledge of sheep , appreciating how quickly he spotted a sick or lame sheep and how neatly he and Meg could cut it out from the herd for attention . |
| 23 | ‘ I could take them out to the middle of a lake in a boat and drop them in . |
| 24 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps you could take her back to the auberge ? ’ |
| 26 | thing you could pass on to the police and they could take it up with the local council . |
| 27 | Erm and and and we could take it back to the hundred days episode when the great powers have all er decided to er er to prevent Napoleon from making a comeback in France . |
| 28 | Its expansion could take us out of the recession without further inflation and increasing unemployment . |
| 29 | England did not seem to believe that Spanish-based Tab Ramos could juggle it back from the bye-line and when he did , no-one had picked up the 6ft 1ins Kaiserlauten defender as he powered his header past Chris Woods . |
| 30 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |