Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since no one could imagine that in these circumstances or in any other circumstances anyone could successfully impersonate Ramsey , the ritual was a piece of legal nothing which allowed a Protestant agitator the chance of publicity which might help his own cause but must also help Ramsey . |
| 2 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |
| 3 | Lewis came to the faith by means of what one could loosely term Neo-Platonism . |
| 4 | DEC claims that its MIPS DECstation and DECsystems machines could eventually run OSF/1 . |
| 5 | If Labour fails to break through , Mr Kinnock could rightly blame Ms Twelves and her like . |
| 6 | Wilcox and Hill set up the move , Stowell could only block Shearer 's shot and Sellars followed up to put Rovers ahead . |
| 7 | The former England midfielder capitalised on a blunder by City defender Keith Curle , who could only nod Steve Hodge 's cross out to him — and he promptly half-volleyed a magnificent swerving shot into the back of the City net . |
| 8 | Jukes could only parry May 's blockbuster at the foot of the post and the alert Deighan squared the ball back in for Steve Stairs to force it over the line . |
| 9 | Yet increased defence spending could only injure Britain 's economic recovery . |
| 10 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 11 | Mauriac could only explain de Gaulle 's decision as the product of impatience . |
| 12 | If she could only see Troy now , he would help her to decide ! |
| 13 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 14 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 15 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 16 | China 's view was that Taiwan could only enter GATT as part of China . |
| 17 | It is unfortunate that the influential Dudek could only illustrate Leonard 's work by quoting from the admittedly despondent poem ‘ Rededication ’ , without a reference to the many other elements of positive delight that the book — and Leonard 's work elsewhere at that time — demonstrates . |
| 18 | East Beirut officials and press called that a flagrant interference in the Lebanon 's affairs , which could only strengthen Gen Aoun . |
| 19 | East Beirut officials and press called that a flagrant interference in the Lebanon 's affairs , which could only strengthen Gen Aoun . |
| 20 | She could only sell St Agatha once , and there was precious little left besides to sell . |
| 21 | Rachaela could only take Ruth to the school in the mornings ; at least she saw her to the gates . |
| 22 | Chief Lebanese delegate Suhayl Shammas said that Lebanon could only address Israel 's security concerns within the framework of UN Security Council Resolution 425 . |
| 23 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 24 | If she could only persuade Isabel to come downstairs , other than for meals , to talk to her , to listen to the radio , not to be afraid of meeting the butcher or the postman or whatever visitor might call . |
| 25 | And he could only keep William and stop the court from giving Mummy custody if she were at home to help care for her brother . |
| 26 | The Austrians would not accept an eviction ; the Russians could only remove Ferdinand , if he did not resign , at the cost of a general war . |
| 27 | But neither man could entirely ignore North 's fevered memoranda , insisting that without the awful procession of weapons shipments the hostages would die ; and both men , while they were in office , had to go each morning to a president who would ask them what they were doing and importune them to try harder . |
| 28 | Charles could just picture Paul Lexington saying it , his plausible face earnestly puckered as he explained the situation to his gullible client . |
| 29 | If I could just have Mr. Pertwee 's address … ’ |
| 30 | Out of the corner of his eye he could just see Dan Ashton , the road-gang foreman and union representative . |