Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford students succeeded , in Fox v Stirk [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 7 , in establishing that they could be resident in their university constituency and thus entitled to qualify to vote notwithstanding that they were also resident in their home constituencies and could qualify to vote there alternatively but this was on the basis that they had a ‘ residence ’ in Oxford where they spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 2 | But before Lowe could hope to get there , he had a party to survive . |
| 3 | When she does so , you or another relative could suggest staying there with her for a day or two until she is ready to face the loneliness she has to learn to live with . |
| 4 | I 'll have these Freshers all the way down the side near that erm middle wall , thought to myself wonder what I could have done there that will look pretty |
| 5 | What remains is regret , a persistent idea that they might have been happy in the homeplace , if only they could have survived there . |
| 6 | Neither had she , Maggie thought , feeling she could have stood there all day gawping up at it . |
| 7 | She could have stood there all day listening to him repeat it over and over again . |
| 8 | I could have stood there on the hillside and quoted the whole of Mark Antony 's speech in modern everyday English from beginning to end . |
| 9 | Spellbound , she could have stood there gazing indefinitely if her ankle , which unconsciously she 'd put weight on , had n't protested with a stab of pain . |
| 10 | Obviously , they deserved to be beaten out of sight , but since the weather had looked almost certain to save them if someone could have stayed there , the collapse became even more abject . |
| 11 | I 'd never been in the cab of a moving train before , and I felt I could have stayed there all day . |
| 12 | She said , ‘ If you came earlier on in the alphabet you could have stayed there . |
| 13 | Other visitors might have seen the business-card as merely a piece of litter — it could have stayed there , its drawing-pins slowly rusting , for years ; but Flaubert gave it function . |
| 14 | I could have stayed there , wandering round , watching Sam exploring with waving tail , nosing into the shady corners where the sun had not reached and the ground was iron hard and the rime thick and crisp on the grass . |
| 15 | She could have stayed there forever , but after a moment he set her gently aside and turned towards Marianne . |
| 16 | No stranger honeymooners could have gathered there than the gangs of parliament members — 67 of them — who were ferried down to the Bekaa in Syrian helicopters and armoured limousines , guarded by squads of bodyguards armed with anti-tank rockets . |
| 17 | Down in Tranent , which was somewhere near Edinburgh , and anything could have happened there — but old Donald had had this from Cameron himself , and he got newspapers by the carrier 's cart from Dunkeld — some miners had sworn not to serve , even if the King called on them , and the Volunteers had chased them into the cornfields and played havoc with their sabres … |
| 18 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |
| 19 | Although they only took 20 minutes to arrive , if George could have given a map reference , as well as his address , they could have got there that much sooner . |
| 20 | If I had wanted I could have shouted there , too , but the noise would have got kind of muffled . |
| 21 | Yanto felt he could have sat there for ever . |
| 22 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 23 | Despite the phone ringing insistently in the background , I felt as if I could have sat there for ever . |
| 24 | She could have sat there writing her notes . |
| 25 | somewhere else so could have sat there all bleeding day ! |
| 26 | Eva could go walking there the weekends she was free , capturing the beauty of the beeches or a snow scene in detailed photographs , a hobby she had first taken up in Africa . |
| 27 | A SOUTH Armagh man who told Newry Magistrates Court he was going to get married when he got out of prison , was told he ‘ could get married there now ’ by Regional Magistrate Gerry Harty . |
| 28 | A fortnight ago the council decided that security at Castlemeads had been improved to such a degree that the women could start parking there again . |