Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gives me the address of a boarding house he could stay at in Earls Court . |
| 2 | The only place she could disappear into in that space of time was Marshall 's cottage . |
| 3 | All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy . |
| 4 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 5 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |
| 6 | These are the limestone arres , and as unwelcoming a site as you could think of for a new resort . |
| 7 | The only other reason Miranda could think of for her failure to get Adam to the altar was her success ; she knew that while many women were attracted to a man by his status , many men saw a successful businesswoman as a direct competitor . |
| 8 | I did everything I could think of with Anna . |
| 9 | Richie was the only person he could think of with the necessary clout . |
| 10 | There could be no answer to that , none that I could think of at the time . |
| 11 | No they do n't , but it was the only accent I could think of at the time . |
| 12 | It sold almost everything you could think of except cigarettes . |
| 13 | I had invited everyone I could think of to tea , and we had been invited back , but it was not her style , and when she complained that it was not right for her ‘ to be living among all these old people ’ I understood very well what she meant . |
| 14 | It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I see , ’ was all Sabine could think of in reply . |
| 16 | The implied value of this being that like the sixties social realist films , such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ) and This Sporting Life ( 1963 ) , it was a film that working-class people could relate to on an emotional level because ‘ it so closely resembles aspects of your own life ’ . |
| 17 | Erm it 's erm this is people or stories but a based again I 'm sure when y as you read through you 'll probably find quite a lot of the erm little things that they 're giving you here you could relate to in your own life , either for yourself or for other people that you know . |
| 18 | This was no ordinary passer-by , someone she could appeal to for help . |
| 19 | There were at least three Senators he could count on for verbal support , if nothing more . |
| 20 | Castro 's declaration had the immediate effect of widening the gap between himself and the people who were against socialism , and it narrowed the circle of those he could count on for support against the invasion . |
| 21 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 22 | Imagine , for a moment , that you had a single , reliable , authoritative source you could count on to help you solve many of your software development problems . |
| 23 | So the total number of biomorphs that we could jump to in a single step is 19 times itself 9 times over : 19 to the power 9 . |
| 24 | In his autobiographical reminiscences with the Viennese critic Franz Endler , Karajan has explained why , for all its youthful brilliance , the Philharmonia was not an orchestra he felt he could grow with beyond a certain point . |
| 25 | That 's probably just what your aching body could do with after 26.2 miles — weightlessness ! |
| 26 | This is the operation that plant workers decided they could do without on the morning of the accident . |
| 27 | There are excrescences one could do without on this side of the town . |
| 28 | Whatever she could look for in the future must be looked for outside marriage . |
| 29 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 30 | I told her I wanted something I could look at on days when it was too hot to have a fire . ’ |