Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] could [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those it failed to deter was a predatory heron which discovered that by activating the light it could purloin a splendid fish supper from among the transfixed koi carp in the garden pond below . |
| 2 | The first synthetic assembly glues were therefore of the ureaformaldehyde type which could h set with much weaker catalysts . |
| 3 | The girl who could Dream was remote , a fantastical character . |
| 4 | The award and the ceremony itself were instigated by the British Fashion Council , which tried every tactic it could -including the setting up of a smarter venue at The Duke of York 's Barracks -to persuade Katharine Hamnett to show in London . |
| 5 | the question what could lilies mean |
| 6 | Although this programme has not yet started if you feel you have an initiative which could quality contact your representative and have a chat . |
| 7 | Knowing what the Bushmen knew then — that the NEA was unpopular with conservative legislators and already the target of fundamentalist Christians for subsidising offensive art — they can hardly have seen this as a plum they could hand to a big contributor or a rising political star or , indeed , to anybody aiming to leave town alive . |
| 8 | No fire-escape , no convenient drainpipe anyone could shin up . |
| 9 | She could put up with that if it got her to a city , or within reach of a ve-hickle she could scav . |
| 10 | And that same yron man which could reueale |
| 11 | By 1808 the unpopularity of Godoy had spread beyond these circles to embrace all classes and the revolution prophesied in 1798 was turning against the court that supported his power : a monarchy which could disgrace itself and by its foreign policy plunge Spain into inflation , dear bread , commercial depression , and the loss of the American market must be limited by a constitution . |
| 12 | Cutis managing director Roger Curtis said : ‘ We make and provide a particular type of chair but had had difficulty finding a local supplier who could manufacturer them for us . |
| 13 | He was n't a man you could cross-question . |
| 14 | And if I can , then it would be a lever you could hand to him . ’ |
| 15 | I find it 's very difficult in these ovens to , you know a normal oven you could sort of put things to the bottom that you 've already done . |
| 16 | The down side is that we probably have the toughest Xmas/New Year you could image ( excluding Crewe ! ! ) . |
| 17 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 18 | Erm there was no way he could sort of get out it . |
| 19 | Obviously the activity of a pair of adult foxes feeding a family which could number as many as eight cubs has a quite drastic effect on the local rabbit population . |
| 20 | Perhaps the only other Seniors ' player who could stymie a Trevino rampage next year is Jack Nicklaus — if he wants to , that is . |
| 21 | But there was a very small group who acknowledged that their unspoken anger was so powerful , they used their tears as a revenge , knowing that their husbands hated tears and knowing that weeping they could discomfort them . |