Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [indef pn] [pers pn] could " in BNC.

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1 The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway !
2 The shadow on the step , the wind in his eye , the very fact that Fly was here when he never came into the city on weekdays : it all added up to something he could n't quite catch hold of .
3 On the surface Dana was hard and self-assured , out for everything she could get , but Claudia knew that exterior was n't completely genuine .
4 Upstairs , alone , feeling left out of something she could n't define , she looked through a pile of books left by his door .
5 So he would use the charm and the lies on the old lady in her grief , and cheat her out of everything he could get .
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