Example sentences of "[noun prp] could [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years ago , he said , Ash could list only a handful of companies with smoking restrictions . |
| 2 | In the mist , Giles could see only a few feet ahead , so he moved very carefully . |
| 3 | Soutine could speak hardly a word of French . |
| 4 | All too easily Soho could become less a way of life than an unbreakable habit . |
| 5 | At its present stage of development , he warned , Burkina could adopt neither a one-party system nor " an anarchic multiparty system , which breeds national division " . |
| 6 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
| 7 | These matches were required to show whether the All Blacks tight five were still able to cut the mustard , whether the loose forwards could combine , whether New Zealand could put together a backline attack without having Joe Stanley as the lynch-pin . |
| 8 | ONLY SINEAD O'Connor could put together a seemingly uncontroversial , fun thing like a collection of cover versions of old standards and torch songs and put a speech at the end of it that questions the very foundations and ethics of the Catholic Church . |
| 9 | With the torches extinguished , Rostov could see only a vague blur where each of the targets stood . |