Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] put [art] " in BNC.

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1 I could n't put a price on his head , ’ said Keegan .
2 There was a strange sort of hissing in the bracken to the west which I could n't put a name to .
3 I could n't put a name on her treatment of me , no word existed for what she was trying to do , but I knew I was being manipulated under the guise of deference and consideration .
4 Rex made a peculiar face of his own , but I could n't put a name to it .
5 Before 12 o'clock my horse came to the door , but I could n't put the book down .
6 An aquarium only became necessary when I could not put a name to even some of the commoner intertidal fish , in the short time that the tide was out .
7 I could even put a tag on a few customers .
8 Yeah , I 'll have a nose round and I 'll , yes I could possibly put the window back and shut one of the vents , yes .
9 She could even put a name to his American fiancée .
10 Beneath all the doubts , all the hurt , there still lingered something … something she could not put a finger on .
11 He looked … well , she could n't put a name to how he looked .
12 As she watched the door swing gently to a close behind him , Lindsey was left with the crazy feeling that she must have imagined those few seconds when something , even if she could n't put a name to it , had passed between them .
13 With a rush of emotion she could n't put a name to Luce realised that her first instinctive feeling about him had been absolutely right .
14 He came back with a brace of fish of a species she could n't put a name to .
15 Well no y she could n't put the B side in cos she s you 've got to put the A in .
16 For very tiny pieces of piping , you could even put a little icing directly into the nozzle and press out with your thumb — messy but simple .
17 I mean you could n't put a stranger on a job that you , you yourself .
18 But once you were qualified for the job you could n't put a stranger on you had to ta teach that stranger a job .
19 I think he did n't like the idea of gentle mists because you could n't put a hard line round them . ’
20 You could n't put a porch on the front of that .
21 But if you had your name and year at the top you could actually put a simple statement along the bottom because you 'll only be issuing it for year nine
22 But you could actually put a bag all the way and tie it into tie it into er the it 's the Skillery Bridge that one .
23 you know you could always put a bit of paint on it
24 We could not put the ship on the beach when we reached North Inlet because the sea was too high .
25 Anyway , even if one wanted to , one could n't put the clock back to an earlier age .
26 They could n't put a cloth over it , you know , like I had that night when the Corporal rushed , parang drawn , into my room at the O. T. X-Ray .
27 He realised that they could n't put the fire out and that something was going to happen .
28 It could even put a question mark over the future of England captain and selector Graham Gooch , whose fitness and discipline regime have become a hallmark of the current side , and which Gower has had some difficulty fitting in with .
29 Judge said he could n't put an estimate on the value of the typescript , and ignored it in the sentence .
30 There was something in his attitude which worried Wycliffe but he could not put a finger on it .
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