Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but again y'know I could in theory provide some handouts for you which you could perhaps pick up at the end of the er of the lecture from the front or even have available in a general office for you , okay ? |
| 2 | Unexpected , it was like a surprise confrontation , and for a moment she could only stare blindly at the familiar name . |
| 3 | And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was . |
| 4 | His star could only rise again with the economic stagnation of the early 1980s and , even more clearly , following the appearance of Mr Gorbachev . |
| 5 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 6 | I was seeking a scrap of common ground on which we could mutually back away from the argument . |
| 7 | B. S. Johnson 's The Unfortunates , for example , could scarcely go further in the creation of what Roland Barthes calls scriptible fiction . |
| 8 | Why endeavour to demystify the ‘ subtext ’ of a lager commercial when that supposed subtext could scarcely lie closer to the surface and is being forced on one 's attention the way a card-sharper forces a card ? |
| 9 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 10 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 11 | ‘ I was in the war , ’ the poppy-seller at Charing Cross said , to explain why he could not go along with the media insistence that this was a good news story . |
| 12 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 13 | The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil . |
| 14 | I could not move away from the child 's bed . |
| 15 | Clearly the town could not hold out without the castle , which the Duke contemptuously dismissed as ‘ an old hen-coop which he would speedily bring down about their ears ’ . |
| 16 | The Greek economy , despite a five-year transition period , could not compete equally with the EC and soon faced a massive trade deficit , and the Socialist government in Athens pursued a negative policy towards the EC for several years . |
| 17 | And when the ship was caught , and could not bear up into the wind , we let her drive . |
| 18 | The system could not function properly without the presence of a file server on the network and the fact that Talbot were given the go ahead to use the AppleShare software gives some degree of indication how seriously the project was being taken . |
| 19 | There were only a few realists in the ILP who appreciated that it could not function independently of the Labour Party . |
| 20 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 21 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 22 | The approaching host could not head directly for the town because of the suddenly-widening river-mouth , having to swing off somewhat to the left , westwards , to reach the Spittal or Town ford , the nearest crossing , whose natural shallows had been improved by an underwater causeway of stone slabs . |
| 23 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 24 | You are surprised that the Council could not do more for the World . |
| 25 | I was surprised that the Council could not do more for the World . |
| 26 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 27 | Such men depended upon success for support : for while du Guesclin might play upon his Breton origin to gather a force ( or route ) around him , the English could not do so with the same ease , and therefore came to rely upon their reputations to draw men to their service . |
| 28 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 29 | Could not stay long in the room with it , but the ice had been broken . |
| 30 | You could not hunch up into the tree , hugging closer to the trunk . |