Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was confident , anyway , that his words could talk her out of any ill-feeling . |
| 2 | Truly my living words could vindicate me ; ask Helen , if they would not. , The necessary complement to the epistolary picture of his Oxford life is his own book Oxford , published three years after he came down . |
| 3 | And er you know , your words could find their way into one of Longman 's dictionaries . |
| 4 | I do n't think even the most jealous Committee of Privileges could do anything with such a sentence , but its meaning is clear enough . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Noah Claypole , amazed by all that he had heard , crept up the steps and ran for Fagin 's house as fast as his legs could carry him . |
| 6 | Then the club DJs could change it again , extending it further , overlaying different elements , adjusting the speed , heightening a mood through context . |
| 7 | Yet if many of the toxic chemicals that animals possess have evolved in order to aid survival , either by predation or protection , it may well be that some of these compounds could assist our own survival . |
| 8 | English fans could find themselves alongside rival Hungarians when Manchester United lead football league clubs back into Europe tomorrow after a five year absence . |
| 9 | But before Ferguson and the Rangers fans could celebrate his very first goal for the club it was ruled out . |
| 10 | It is equally clear that some directors have privately expressed fears that , given the crudeness with which the 1993–4 budget trends will have been constructed , severe cash shortages could affect them by September . |
| 11 | It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met . |
| 12 | For this reason it initiated a substantial number of research and development projects from which teachers and schools could make their choice ( a cafeteria system ) . |
| 13 | Whether they served the primary or the secondary sector schools could take their management responsibilities in two ways : they could plan with the expectation that a larger degree of local choice and discretion would be gradually restored to them or they could look upon their job as one of responding to differing levels of pressure from central government . |
| 14 | But the dining-room was too spacious : there the sepoys could use their numbers for a devastating bayonet charge . |
| 15 | A few games in the reserves could do him some good . |
| 16 | Medical advice is that men who drink more than 21 units a week and women who drink more than 14 units could damage their health . |
| 17 | Few people thought the Tigrayans could continue their success outside their own province , but on 26 August the TPLF began an advance which drove the government forces out of Korem and Kobo . |
| 18 | But there appears not to have been , for instance , any of that sterile rivalry between man and wife which is now the bane of middle-class society with any claims to cultural or intellectual interests ; plainly Mrs Lowndes and the young matrons who were her friends did not seethe resentfully at having their intellectual and imaginative capacities shackled to kitchen and nursery , whereas their husbands could exercise theirs in the great world . |
| 19 | One government pamphlet complained how scarcely any of the Anglican clergy could find it in their hearts to thank the King , " and those Few that pretend to do it , have proceeded so Awkwardly in their Acknowledgments , as renders them of very little Value , since in the same addresses they also pressed for " the continuance of those Penal Laws , which diametrically oppose … the Royal Indulgence " . |
| 20 | So she said to help Mary out she said I gave her all the sweets and chocolate I had she said so the kids could have something to go over with . |
| 21 | I thought , I I well , I do n't envisage anything but I mean I would of thought that kids could fill it in in pencil and then we do the same as we did before a and and that the staff in some way put in their own . |
| 22 | ‘ The Computers could do it without trouble . |
| 23 | Millimetres in size , perhaps interstitial in sediments , their inability to fossilize or leave obvious traces could explain their absence from Proterozoic rocks . |
| 24 | They both then sprinted off and were out of sight before the group of concerned shoppers could reach her as she lay in a faint on the bottom step below the church . |
| 25 | The church is near the Central Market and so , with our microphones , shoppers could hear our demands and many came up to show their support . |
| 26 | Phat looked inquiringly towards his master , wondering if the procedures should be halted , but the Corsican waved him on , gesturing peremptorily for the crowd to he moved back so that the new recruits could see what was happening . |
| 27 | But the biggest fear about the new technology is that it brings a little closer the day when journalists could set their own type . |
| 28 | In effect , through com-puter-typesetting , journalists could become their own printers , and whole echelons of intermediaries could be eliminated . |
| 29 | He said he was surprised journalists could compromise their impartiality in covering a matter of public interest by declaring their support for one side or the other . |
| 30 | Kit ordered Ariel brought , so that the islanders could see she was as well as could be expected , and recovering from the wound to her thigh . |