Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | but even then we could have consignment stock here in effect cos they 're only forty minutes away , we could throw 'em in the back of the car and have 'em delivered . |
| 2 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 3 | ‘ That was when I knew he could make it in the bigtime , ’ he says . |
| 4 | That you could make it in the movies with no boobs to speak of was , until recently , an alien notion . |
| 5 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 6 | At my mother 's I could dry it in the garden . |
| 7 | There was division in UNTCOK whether it could accomplish anything in the circumstances ; some members felt it should report the impossibility of proceeding but others believed that it could make limited progress . |
| 8 | She could sense it in the way men talked to her , the sideways glances of strangers . |
| 9 | Zoshchenko could caricature them in the 1920s , but by the 1930s it became too dangerous to ridicule what had solidified into a standardized bureaucratic mode of oppression . |
| 10 | She could busy herself in the garden till then . |
| 11 | The women 's group 's orientation was towards action : ‘ There was no way we could beat them in the courts . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I trained tremendously hard and felt sure I could beat anyone in the world . ’ |
| 13 | I felt wonderful , and it was at that moment that I realised that if I started taking my athletics seriously , if I started training properly , if I started listening to Ron , then maybe I could do something in the sport . |
| 14 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 15 | They now told him , in no uncertain terms , that if he had something important to communicate , he could do it in the plant car park during the lunch break , or after working hours . |
| 16 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
| 17 | And you could do that in the all the rest area , you could do it in the whole club to be honest . |
| 18 | Now you could do it in the nineteen seventies and er well yes I would say from nineteen sixty eight onwards with plastic card and revolv , what 's called revolving credit . |
| 19 | My time was my own ; I could do anything in the world I liked . |
| 20 | ‘ Will you telephone Harriman and ask if he could do anything in the way of intervention ? ’ |
| 21 | He could feel it in the bite of the breeze , the faintly golden light of the afternoon . |
| 22 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 23 | ‘ Because the rope used to come down through here so they could ring it in the cloakroom . |
| 24 | He could see nothing in the west . |
| 25 | Yet she could see nothing in the future but hurt for both of them . |
| 26 | He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters . |
| 27 | With his head turned his face was close to hers and he would stare right at her , maybe thinking nobody could see him in the dimness , or maybe not caring if they did . |
| 28 | For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder . |
| 29 | It was n't as if he could see her in the flimsy satin nightdress , was it ? |
| 30 | You could see them in the bull-neck , in the big shoulders , in the thick arms , in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs . |