Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could manage stockings out of what you 've given me . ’ |
| 2 | At Eton I had read every book I could lay hands on about the Zulus , about Abyssinia and about the rise and fall of the Dervish empire in the Sudan . |
| 3 | Today I felt I could leave things no longer , so I had a word with a colleague in the Home Office . |
| 4 | A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament . |
| 5 | I 'd go to the SS Great Britain and sit by the breezy river , and I 'd compose my stupid self and compose my story so that I could tell lies confidently instead of giving myself away . |
| 6 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |
| 7 | I could hear voices somewhere as I looked around , studying the portraits , examining the marquetry of the chairs and tables , all of which were ranged formally about the walls . |
| 8 | I could hear voices far away and then something hurt my shoulder . |
| 9 | If I could get exams just now , I would . |
| 10 | so I could swap tapes over . |
| 11 | like that and eventually with the help of my mum I could join sentences together to make a real piece of writing . |
| 12 | Checking the small print — ensuring there are no loopholes in the agreement which could let landlords out of their obligations . |
| 13 | He invented a precursor of the high-speed continuous extrusion freezer which could cut novelties out of slabs of vanilla ice cream . |
| 14 | This is never done to motorists , where a very substantial minority of abusers literally get away with murder , despite the existence of technology which could reduce speeds substantially . |
| 15 | The large entrance lock was built in 1884 to give access to a dock which could take vessels up to three thousand |
| 16 | She could do wonders here , turn the area around this beautifully designed barn into something special . |
| 17 | For years she 'd gone blithely on in her own way , enjoying the applause , proud that she could send audiences home happy , laughing and satisfied at the end of one of her shows . |
| 18 | Then perhaps she could think things through and decide what to do . |
| 19 | She could invent hypotheses as often as she sipped her tepid coffee . |
| 20 | One mentioned her skill at communicating with patients who had had a tracheostomy and another found that she could lip-read patients when nobody else could understand them . |
| 21 | But the women were still there when she looked again ; twenty or thirty of them , in various states of undress — although none , she was relieved to notice once she could take things in , was actually naked . |
| 22 | Her brief confusion at his sudden rejection of her had evaporated ; now she could see things very clearly indeed , and the hot flush of embarrassment washed over her . |
| 23 | She could see fires occasionally , but when she approached them she found men strapped to stakes , burning . |
| 24 | She could hear voices ahead , a girl squealing , a man laughing . |
| 25 | She could hear stirrings upstairs and assumed that Matey , who often rose early when she could not sleep late , was on her way down to start her chores alongside McAllister . |
| 26 | This would only be possible if she had intensive 24-hour cover : if she could employ carers both night and day who could be flexible enough to adapt to her needs rather than vice versa . |
| 27 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 28 | A folk hero , a man who could draw climbers literally hundreds of miles just to sit in the same pub and hear him sing and play his accordion . |
| 29 | If it covers people who were clients before or who could become clients afterwards , it will be void . |
| 30 | But what they were thinking of doing is taking on another person who could file plans away in the plan room once the , once sort of the midmorning rush of visitors had been cleared in , in Hudson House reception . |