Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep him from chasing younger birds — if he could 've summoned up the energy . |
| 2 | So the chalk could have absorbed up the grease . |
| 3 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 4 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 5 | In those pieces that are workable for both groups , it seems perfectly plausible that the string and wind ensembles could have played simultaneously the statement in the first entrée that the bride and groom are led by the violins and oboes suggests as much or they may have played in alternation . |
| 6 | Without the Soviet threat American domestic constraints could have weakened further the drive for a new American-led international economic order . |
| 7 | I could n't have missed him , but I could have slowed down a bit . |
| 8 | He was sure , not only because he could have written out a set of instructions there and then , if he had had any paper , but because he could imagine all the minute details of doing those things . |
| 9 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 10 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |
| 11 | Here he could have seen out the war , but he , and Reg Wallace , another RAF evader , ‘ escaped ’ into France and joined the Maquis . |
| 12 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 13 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 14 | It was impossible that anyone could have torn out a brick through the wallpaper . |
| 15 | In the absence of deep-rooted democratic institutions which could have held back the force of aggressive nationalism , local groups took the form of mere channels through which the idea of the nation as an integrated family could be reproduced . |
| 16 | ‘ Nobody else could have thought up a trick like that ! |
| 17 | NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in . |
| 18 | And can I tell you , that if we 'd just done Covermaster , somebody could have picked up a point there . |
| 19 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 20 | We could have harnessed up the goat-cart and come and fetched you . |
| 21 | The DTI could have closed down the investment business there and then . |
| 22 | Kings boss Chris Kelly added : ‘ I did n't want to play at all and feel that on a neutral ground with our display against Peterborough we could have pulled off a shock win . |