Example sentences of "could [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least he was here now , and could supervise moving Jacqui to another hide-away . |
| 2 | Chris Sharpe , a smiling , sensitive biologist from Leeds , here for as long as he could stay to study primates , passed the test easily . |
| 3 | Who could want to take uranium out of the factory ? |
| 4 | Maybe if you 'd spared a few minutes , you could 've become part of Gillian Wearing 's extensive collection of personalised banners . |
| 5 | I reckon Wilko could 've screwed gobber Ferguson for 2 million for Cantona . |
| 6 | ‘ Could 've spotted Jack going ‘ walkabout ’ , you mean . ’ |
| 7 | I could 've taken offence at that . |
| 8 | You could 've taken Oliver |
| 9 | She could 've used Switch card but they had n't got one of them neither . |
| 10 | We were both in the upper IQ bracket ; we could 've used channels , pulled strings , bypassed the system . |
| 11 | You could 've been a real trendsetter , you could 've put Ghostbuster stripes on it |
| 12 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | " You could 've had Harry without any competition at all , if you 'd so much as bent your little finger . |
| 14 | If we had n't taken this step we could 've had fans from both sides mixing inside the ground and locked out on the streets . |
| 15 | I was born in a barn , never knew my father , but was a very goodlooking baby — I could 've won prizes . |
| 16 | Should this produce no results , then you could consider trying Stage 3 of the elimination diet ( see p 277 ) , if the eczema is bad enough to justify this , and if your doctor agrees . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , there 's more than one flat for rent in London , is n't there ? ’ their father chipped in to declare , and then , with a fond look at his wife , ‘ And if there is n't , my dear — well , I 'm sure , for such a good cause , we could consider letting Leith and Sebastian have the inheritance from their grandfather before they 're twenty-five . ’ |
| 18 | ( But only vegetables — there seemed to be no animals we could catch to provide meat , and we had no luck when we tried to fish . ) |
| 19 | Public accountability and transparency might be assisted by opening up the negotiation process between Central and Local government to participation by disinterested , knowledgeable parties and to non-expert advisors who could seek to ensure transparency , which is manifestly lacking in current procedures , particularly for the assessment of Grant Related Expenditure . |
| 20 | For example , a provider could seek to increase profits by trimming the quality of care or a purchaser to reduce costs by manipulating information or concealing intentions ( for instance , about the number of patients it will be referring under a block contract or their health status ) . |
| 21 | This was regarded by most as a just reward for helping to raise over £50 million for the cause , but the more sinister downside was that a few less scrupulous characters realised that supporting charities could boost flagging careers and chart positions . |
| 22 | ‘ If prosperity is related to health or , more importantly , if relative poverty is related to poor health , this may be one way in which Britain could act to improve life expectancy , ’ they said . |
| 23 | We could direct polluting silage run-off and slurry from dairies and pig farms into small-scale local power plants . |
| 24 | We discussed the purposes of the visit which , among other things , would explore the help which the Commission could give to assist NGO ‘ inter-country linking ’ within the UK . |
| 25 | Alternatively , public transport vehicles could carry accompanied cycles , as they frequently do in Switzerland . |
| 26 | Accordingly , the programme was designed so that it could be modified in the light of experience , and families could choose to discontinue investigation at every stage from the initial screening test to the confirmed diagnosis . |
| 27 | ACTRESS Jane Seymour could choose to spend Christmas anywhere in the world . |
| 28 | Barnaby believes that , using sophisticated technology , it would be possible for countries to establish an electronic Maginot line using sensors and remotely-piloted vehicles , which could identify attacking forces . |
| 29 | No plan for when he could expect to reach Decision Height . |
| 30 | We can make a pretty fair guess as to how much the ship 's crew were paid on such a trip as this : a surviving Schedule ‘ A ’ Crew Agreement for the same ship four years later reveals that a seaman could expect to earn £2 per month , the cook and steward slightly more , the carpenter £5 10s. , and the first and second mates £6 and £4 10s. respectively . |