Example sentences of "[noun prp] could [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and David could not do anything about it , of course , but it was wonderful . |
| 2 | David could never do those things . |
| 3 | George and Marie clearly need to do some manpower planning , starting with themselves : Marie could clearly do with a bit of training in delegation , and George might benefit from a course in marketing . |
| 4 | erm Sue could probably do with spending a bit of time learning about DOS , but I do n't see the point . |
| 5 | But oh no , IBM could n't do that — it might lose 5% of its moribund mainframe sales to the AS/400 . |
| 6 | She knew that Nicandra could not do without her . |
| 7 | What did Billy Corkin do that Will Carling could never do , he asks long lost friends . |
| 8 | Being in the middle of Europe , Germany could not do this alone and she formed an alliance with Austria , enabling her to hide her hegemonial ambitions under the label ‘ Mitteleuropa ’ ( Central Europe ) . |
| 9 | Gary Wilmot could possibly do it as , like me , he was a contestant on the show and would therefore understand the awesome fear the contestants have to cope with . |
| 10 | This was unusual , he almost never talked while he was working , but maybe he sensed that Jed wanted the silence filled and knew that Jed could n't do it on his own . |
| 11 | I think that 's nice Geoffrey could n't do that |
| 12 | Fleischmann and Pons could n't do this and Jones invited them to bring their ( working ! ) cells over to Brigham Young University so that his neutron spectrometer could measure a detailed spectrum . |
| 13 | In saving , in rescuing lost humanity , lost you and lost me , it was the hardest , most difficult , most painful job that God could ever do ! |
| 14 | Montagu apart , there was unanimous agreement that his challenge must be resisted , and that Asquith could best do this by resigning . |
| 15 | As Robert Lovett , former Under Secretary of State , told the drafting committee , there was practically nothing that the US could not do if it wanted to . |
| 16 | It was after tea , getting dark , and Uncle Bill could n't do anything in his garden . |
| 17 | She said , definitely , " It 's no good , Comrade Andrew.I could n't do it . |
| 18 | That was one thing Andrew could n't do , because he had to be at the Works by eight o'clock and Emma did n't start school until nine . |
| 19 | Holders Fiji start as favourites while the Barbarians , led by Gavin Hastings , and a new-look New Zealand could also do well . |
| 20 | Whatever the outcome of the battle , Microsoft could hardly do better financially , be it worldwide or in Europe . |
| 21 | Not different at all , countered Weinberger : still fanatically anti-American and virulently anti-western ; America could not do any business with them . |
| 22 | St Michael could not do it on his own . |
| 23 | Voltaire could not do it ; |
| 24 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 25 | The lawyer said : ‘ I suggest Superman could n't do that . ’ |
| 26 | Peter and John could n't do it ! |