Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |
| 2 | After that I could never see the point of toiling up a steep incline in preference to riding comfortably on a ski-lift ! |
| 3 | Because my hair is dry I could really see and feel the difference and the fact that it did n't leave a coating or residue on my hair was great for me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am very proud of what the film has said — and by saying this I could possibly lose a lot of work from the people who make glamorous war films , ’ he admitted . |
| 5 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 6 | To avoid this you could instead turn eastwards on the Garburn road and descend to the village of Kentmere ( 1.5 miles ) and walk back to Staveley from there ( 4 miles ) . |
| 7 | This you could also use in your garment , white background , black outlining and your favourite ‘ bright ’ for the diamonds . |
| 8 | On a day like this you could almost make yourself imagine that the old times were back , when the resort was crammed with holiday-makers for the whole of the summer season and every seaside guest house had a ‘ No Vacancies ’ sign hanging in the window . |
| 9 | If you are feeling brave you could always try phoning : - ) |
| 10 | If the chain proves popular you could soon have a Food Giant near you . |
| 11 | Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors . |
| 12 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 13 | This would compel West Indians to produce more economically , and this they could only do by moving towards free labour and engaging the labourers ' personal material interests in their work . |
| 14 | Professor Mathias correctly sees the high demand of the war years for cereals as keeping agricultural wages up with prices , but they started from such a low level that in years of scarcity like 1795 and 1801 they could hardly have sustained life . |
| 15 | Had things been different they could even have gone together . |
| 16 | He made it clear he could never acknowledge my existence to his family and I did n't expect him to . |
| 17 | Yes , I do enjoy living here , but it 's very different from England and , I must admit , there are times when I miss things back home so much I could literally grab the first plane out of here . ’ |
| 18 | At school the next day I hurt so much I could hardly bear to stay sitting down . |
| 19 | ‘ It was so dark I could hardly see where to put my cross on the voting slip — and then I could n't get to the ballot box which was situated in a poky little office . |
| 20 | To be quite honest I could just go to bed . |
| 21 | When I was a boy of fourteen , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand the old man around . |
| 22 | The change in her way of living was so vast she could scarcely credit it ; she would stop , sometimes , with the polishing rag in her hand , under the watchful eye of the parakeet , and say aloud : ‘ But this can never be me , not really me ! |
| 23 | She would need stock , after all , and if the selection was n't too impossible she could probably keep it long enough to clear it . |
| 24 | When Alejandro yelled at Perdita to tack up a little chestnut gelding , she was so nervous she could hardly do up the throat lash or adjust the stirrups . |
| 25 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 26 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 27 | The couple said some of Timothy 's bandages had been removed and they had been relieved they could still recognise him in spite of his severe facial injuries . |
| 28 | I told them I had no intention of budging an inch from this place , and if they could n't be civil they could both keep away . |
| 29 | The Asaimara were thereby convinced they could successfully defy the Government . |
| 30 | As such it could well find itself held up as an example for later books to match themselves against . |