Example sentences of "could [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag . |
| 2 | ‘ Why — is he going away quite soon ? ’ asked Felicity in dismay , and Breeze could only gaze at her in astonishment . |
| 3 | Since it was Dane 's name on the hoardings which had sold out the theatre on opening night and for several weeks to come , Josh 's kindness brought a painful lump to her throat , and she could only gaze at him in mute gratitude . |
| 4 | Startled , Theda could only gaze at him . |
| 5 | For a second she could only gaze at him , completely at a loss . |
| 6 | If I just knew where he was prepared to stand and then could just sort of do the things round about . |
| 7 | I mean if you were being really dangerous and you wanted to die soon you could just sort of get a piece of bare wire and |
| 8 | You could just sort of tuck it in here under her waistband . |
| 9 | If he hurried he could easily cycle to the barrow , make a thorough search , and be back in his bed before the household started to stir at 7 . |
| 10 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 11 | Those who thought it would fall to pieces within 5000 miles were confounded , even if those who hoped it would sail the test with BMW-like dependability could hardly crow about its reliability record . |
| 12 | I often think I wish you know we could capture some of those again I think it would jolly well I , I , I wish government could , could really sort of kn know what it was like . |
| 13 | The result on March 14 could well hinge on the boots of Stabler and his Newcastle rival David Johnson , whose 28 points on Saturday maintained his position as the country 's leading points scorer . |
| 14 | and I felt quite happy especially with a bow tie on , you know , it had been , it had gone you know and in a way we sort of could almost sort of |
| 15 | and the other one was erm a mother of two and she said that even when she was younger she was always overweight and she could never sort of go out with anybody nice and she just settled for anybody sort of thing , I felt sorry for her husband , mind you saying this like , cos he looked a bit thick and er |
| 16 | you could actually sort of talk about , right a full time centre is ten half day sessions , two full time centre equals twenty half day sessions |