Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 2 | Unfortunately I could do nothing at all . |
| 3 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 4 | And , since Inge 's on holiday and it 's Nettie 's day off , there was no way I could leave her at Lomond View . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't have anything else that I could show you at the moment I 'm afraid . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean I could say anything at all ? ’ she asked with a mischievous smile . |
| 7 | I could hear her at the door , |
| 8 | The footsteps stopped , and I could hear nothing at all . |
| 9 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 10 | If I could see him at the back I 'll er , I 'll just get the question a bit more clearer and I 'm sure I can help . |
| 11 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |
| 12 | ‘ I could see them at the hotel . |
| 13 | I was with , and it was , I could see it at the front . |
| 14 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 15 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 16 | She could cow him at a glance . |
| 17 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 18 | With a field of vision as limited as hers it was amazing that she could see anything at all . |
| 19 | She imagined she could hear it at her back , behind the house and the soft green swell of land that shielded it , could hear the breaking thud of the winter waves on the shore she had not yet seen . |
| 20 | And if the man were as confident of getting away with MacQuillan 's murder as Wickham believed him to be , she could put herself at risk . |
| 21 | When DJS ( D. J. Smith ) spent a whole night walking with a probationer who could find nothing at ail to do , the probationer eventually waited on a main road where there was virtually no traffic and stopped the first two cars that came by . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps you could drop me at the nearest bus stop or railway station , ’ she added . |
| 23 | Accordingly , I would be grateful if you could telephone me at your convenience in order to arrange a meeting at a mutually convenient time . |
| 24 | On the first day I doubt whether you could feel them at all ! |
| 25 | Four , you could do nothing at all and leave any course of action to the solicitors comfortable then you should be using their best endeavours to obtain the licence . |
| 26 | Well you know you could do one at the slip |
| 27 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 28 | These days , though , you could pick one up , if you could find one at all , for around £380 , showing just how unfashionable the poor old RD has become . |
| 29 | Sometimes she became childlike and you could see her at eight or seventeen or twenty-five . |
| 30 | Sometimes you could see only his head or his legs ; sometimes you could see nothing at all . |