Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles pointed out that Aimee could consider going even shorter in the future to emphasise fully her delicate bone structure , a feature which her old hairstyle had failed to draw attention to because it had tended to drag her face downwards . |
| 2 | The snippets of conversation our spies could catch featuring more about ‘ 12″ versions … ’ , ‘ toecurling guitar solos ’ and ‘ dancing chicks ’ much more than would otherwise seem feasible . |
| 3 | Then they were aware of something , out there beyond the benches , which they could sense moving silently in the mist , and though he strained to see it he could not quite catch the thing in one place , for it seemed to come ant go , larger than the bench and bin , looming nearer but not quite seen , dark and grey and pointing to the sky . |
| 4 | You could smell burning here , too . |
| 5 | Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall . |
| 6 | It meant that we could keep moving forward and keep our rhythm . ’ |
| 7 | I guess you could keep going more or less |
| 8 | UltraSparc boxes could begin appearing later in 1995 . |
| 9 | UltraSparc boxes could begin appearing later in 1995 . |
| 10 | If only her stomach would settle and she could face eating again perhaps she would feel less tired and her nerves less ragged . |
| 11 | Britain could stop spending so much on defending the Falklands . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 14 | This inherent uncertainty , coupled with the possibility of fines and private actions , could risk inhibiting rather than promoting competition . |
| 15 | He was just meditating whether he could risk running straight in through the kitchen door when he saw two of the firemen in masks , doing just that . |
| 16 | I 've been concentrating on my technique , so soon I could try working straight on to the plate . |
| 17 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 18 | Although it hardly seemed fair racing a man at least 15 years our senior , who could resist going just a little faster every time we saw his face contorted with exertion , glaring up at us like Charles Laughton in Mutiny On The Bounty ? |
| 19 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Melissa began , on a low note that she could hear becoming steadily more shrill , ‘ that after stabbing Angy , Barney locked himself in the bathroom and left her to die while he calmly washed away her blood ? |
| 20 | When Winston Churchill visited East Africa in 1906 as Under-Secretary of State for the colonies , his private coach was frequently detached at station sidings along the line so that the distinguished Nimrod could go hunting near by . |
| 21 | Bertha would have been sent the message that she could go hopping sideways — while she herself would have been told to get down the road and out of his sight . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | in Newham , that could mean shedding over a quarter of its section eleven teachers . |
| 24 | It could mean bringing somewhere between about ten and fifteen million pounds into Shropshire over that six years from Europe , into , into Shropshire , not in the whole of March 's area , but into Shropshire , during that period , to help projects in the rural west of the county . |
| 25 | And every night , before Swan arrived , he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed . |
| 26 | It could get going again . |
| 27 | After all , they point out , that could involve living together for fifty or sixty years , compared to the twenty or thirty of previous generations . |
| 28 | This was the sign that the children could start eating too . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She promised herself that she could continue sobbing later on , after she had gone to bed in the billiard room . |