Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TV commentator was excitedly describing the drama , but although she strained to hear she could not pick out the name of the victim . |
| 2 | And instead , instead of telling the woman I I pretended to eat it could n't finish it I put it down the lift shaft . |
| 3 | You tried to say you could n't stomach the welling blood the brains the private thinking tissues of the dead animal the pipes rivulets channels conduits and gulleys with their muscular veinous edges , tripe , brains and tongue . |
| 4 | More positive thinking survived in one or two parts of the monolithic building in Queen Anne 's Gate , but the overall impression gained by outside observers was of a dispirited department in which no-one really seemed to know what could be done about crime in general and the prisons in particular . |
| 5 | The daily volume of business reached ever new heights during the year over 920 million shares were traded , compared with 576 million in 1927 , as more and more people came to believe they could get rich quickly . |
| 6 | They also seemed to have what could only be snorkeling devices on the tops of their heads . |
| 7 | Anyway , Harry seemed to think we could manage . ’ |
| 8 | Mandy seemed to think you could have a summer of light-hearted fun without paying the price . |
| 9 | It was a bit cross ( and told the Germans so ) when Germany seemed to think it could have a debate about whether Turkey , a NATO member , was entitled to the benefits of the same collective security which Germany has enjoyed for more than four decades . |
| 10 | He seemed to think he could carry her off like this , and get away with it . |
| 11 | He seemed to think he could walk in and out of her life at will , just as it suited him . |
| 12 | ‘ Two months before the bullying started an appraisal seemed to say I could walk on water . |
| 13 | Iraq , however , perhaps came to feel it could have been even more substantial . |
| 14 | And then when I went to London , I began to find I could n't . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you might like it , ’ he commented , and Fabia had to give her special attention to catkins , and to where lilac was about to break out of bud , because as her heart began to race she could n't help but think that Ven had intended to bring her with him to Petřín , even as he 'd casually tossed that invitation at her . |
| 16 | It began to cry what could they give it |
| 17 | He began to think he could be doing more important things like writing to everyone in the country , asking if he was their son . |
| 18 | By the time the snow began to thaw he could walk gingerly on his injured ankle and when aid arrived at the farm in the form of Tom 's snow-plough , with Tom guiding the plough and Carrie riding the horse , Seb was standing in the farmyard to greet them . |
| 19 | Moreover , there seems to be an element of moral righteousness in Bukharin 's attitude , in so far as he sought to clothe what could be considered necessary violence with an aura of positive good , thereby turning necessity into a virtue . |
| 20 | But when I started to play I could n't believe how easy it was . |
| 21 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 22 | Problem No. 1 : My husband and son started to complain they could not hear the TV . |
| 23 | I started to feel I could n't stay in the same room as you . |
| 24 | There was something corrupt about the extent to which the British in Northern Nigeria cared about the loyalty of their subjects , and the lengths to which they went to cultivate what could in the end only be an illusion of mutual respect . |
| 25 | She liked to think she could do it all . |
| 26 | Neither Mala not I bothered to ask who could have done it . |
| 27 | They jumped down and ran to see what could be the matter with him . |
| 28 | They competed to see who could eat most in the hotel restaurant and gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas . |
| 29 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |
| 30 | ‘ In the end she had to realise she could n't manipulate me — that I did n't love her and never had in the true sense of the word . |