Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [coord] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was directly over one of the pebbles and could see that all the others were moving away from hers . |
| 2 | This found that girls who had felt isolated and embarrassed about being pregnant or having babies felt less stigma about this after they had attended the units and could take a much more realistic view of their situation . |
| 3 | Has slipped down the weights and could surprise at long odds here . |
| 4 | He explained that he knew the velocity of the bomb-fragments and could calculate their time of arrival in his head . |
| 5 | The hirer had an option to purchase on paying all the instalments and could terminate the agreement at any time . |
| 6 | Word reached Peter Wheeler , the Leicester coach , of a young lad at Wakefield , a full-back , a slick-running full-back at that , who not only could kerplonk the ball like a metronome between the posts but could do it with either foot . |
| 7 | Frenchpark is another who should relish the conditions and could win the Coal Trade Benevolent Association Conditions Stakes on his first run of the season . |
| 8 | He climbed the stairs but could see nothing through the hammered glass panels of the front door . |
| 9 | The dictates of self-preservation often ensured that the respectable young working woman dissociated herself from the known prostitute , since association with prostitutes rendered a woman 's character suspect to the police and could lead to her name being placed on the registration list . |
| 10 | The revelation of such information could jeopardize sensitive investigations essential to the nation 's security , could place at risk the lives of those who had come forward with their suspicions to the police and could undermine the efforts of the police to prevent or detect serious crime . |
| 11 | Mr Reynalde played the piano in the intermissions and could remember a time before the war when there was a proper orchestra in the pit . |
| 12 | Every one of them , he said , lost him money every year ; he kept them because he liked them , and because he had no children and could afford to indulge his old age . |