Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | If properly used it could improve the quality of life by a considerable degree . |
| 2 | Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and HP agreed to support a common position Sun eventually found it could n't resist , especially with Novell nudging it on . |
| 3 | He suddenly realized she could have died , that something awful could have taken place after he passed out . |
| 4 | Pulsatilla LM1 produced a response within 3 days when her mouth felt as if it was coated with glue and then she suddenly found she could smell again ! |
| 5 | Which basically found it could n't make a railway service run and dropped it . |
| 6 | She was a startling sight in that setting , for she was immaculately dressed in riding clothes , her breeches almost white , boots black and so highly polished I could see the flood waters reflected in them . |
| 7 | The rest of him , though , ran true to form : an old school blazer , jeans so faded they could appear in a Levi ad any day now , and what appeared to be a genuine official Born To Run tour T-shirt . |
| 8 | This paper 's remarkable success in increasing sales between 1965 and 1969 not only showed what could be achieved by a powerful sales campaign ( which also brought in advertising at higher rates ) but also indicated that new purchasers of newspapers were not attracted to the party press , whose sales remained relatively stagnant . |
| 9 | ‘ Coffee , please , ’ she grinned , so relieved she could have hugged him . |
| 10 | Hoomey set off up the hill , half running , so relieved he could have cried . |
| 11 | Sometimes one or other would misuse that privilege and perhaps shout more than was otherwise seemly , ‘ but the fact that we 'd grown up together meant we could have our rows and know that the next day one of us would apologise , and it would all be forgotten . ’ |
| 12 | as if I suddenly knew I could n't be sure of anything any more . ’ |
| 13 | But they obviously felt they could n't make too much of an example of him because a lot of people , mainly on Sky TV , had already judged the issue . |
| 14 | ‘ Rohan obviously felt he could make plans for his own future , at last . |
| 15 | Joining in meant she could lose herself , forget , live for the moment just as Mark had always done — Oh , he had been a little wild on occasions , she knew that deep down , but Mark , being Mark , things had always turned out OK in the end … until that last time , of course … |
| 16 | The are very variable they obviously thought we could afford a |
| 17 | A trawler-owning ancestor of mine bought the island , apparently convinced he could make a go of farming in a place surround by his beloved sea . ’ |
| 18 | He threw himself down on the bed with his head on my stomach , groaning , and between the groans saying that he would be a good husband in future , he honestly would , he adored me , he was very ashamed and only hoped I could forgive him . |
| 19 | Connelly hoped they could n't hear the desperation in his voice . |
| 20 | He only wished he could grow taller and tougher and learn not to twitch and stammer with nervousness , that he could stop biting his nails and scratching his head so that his father would no longer hate him . |
| 21 | She only wished she could look forward to that day — instead , she realised , aching inside at the prospect , she was dreading it . |
| 22 | Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared . |
| 23 | Then I finally realised you could see it , but you 'd decided simply to ignore it . |
| 24 | ‘ He told me that all his life he was such a shit , and he finally realized he could make someone as happy as he made me , ’ recalls Joey . |
| 25 | ‘ You were n't , ’ Leith assured him , but , while she wanted to tell him that she and Naylor were not engaged — or ever likely to be — she somehow found she could n't . |
| 26 | ‘ I just assumed I could rent a plane and fly over . |
| 27 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 28 | He thus turned what could have been a tragedy into a melodrama , i.e. ‘ a sensational dramatic piece with crude appeals to the emotions ’ ( O.E.D. ) . |
| 29 | Airline access to Heathrow had hitherto been restricted by a rule introduced in 1977 , declaring that only those airlines which already served it could continue to do so . |
| 30 | Cos I noticed when we were there and it just collapsed he could n't walk a lot . |