Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 2 | The consequences of global warming for them could be very serious indeed . |
| 3 | Nursing agencies have often been the means to re-entry in the past , and they too are having to adapt to new forces at work which for them could represent a consumer boom . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly in this sprawling rural district the tories are the second largest grouping on the council and a couple of gains for them could deny the independents overall control . |
| 5 | Now however Ludens had stepped for a moment inside the charmed circle , and things between them could never be the same again . |
| 6 | Last night the atmosphere between them could not have been more different . |
| 7 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 8 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 9 | Their total vote of 1,510 was 600 votes short of Conaty ( Independent ) with 2134 , and no amount of vote transfer between them could have postponed the elimination of any of them until after Conaty . |
| 10 | The flashes of hostility between them could only make things worse . |
| 11 | She could feel the heat of him , the hardness of muscle that lay hidden beneath the elegant cut of his dinner-jacket , and all at once there was a subtle shift in the atmosphere , as if the anger that burned between them could , in the flicker of a heartbeat , become something even more primitive … |
| 12 | Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up . |
| 13 | Stuart was very happy he 's gon na get a bottle of whisky it could n't of been a bottle of bacardi for me could it ! |
| 14 | I send that to Ben , oh if I do it now you can post it for me could n't you ? |
| 15 | I 've got two boxes at home , but I I mean its not brilliant , but they do the job for me could be worth cos he driving out there as well , would n't mind start get the old ferry ticket 's tomorrow and piss off over there , straight through France , |
| 16 | A love such as his could never be ‘ untimely ’ and ‘ indelicate ’ . |
| 17 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |
| 18 | How about I could I could go down and just go to some places in Hull on spec . |
| 19 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 20 | The two meanings are ( i ) ‘ the astronaut entered the atmosphere for ( at least ) the second time ’ and ( ii ) ‘ the astronaut returned to the atmosphere ( after what could have been his/her first trip into space ) ’ . |
| 21 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 22 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |
| 23 | Nothing had to get through which could be used by his enemies . |
| 24 | Directly above this the courtyard roof had a large pentagonal opening through which could be seen the stars , hanging above them in the heavens . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 26 | Intelligence reports had indicated that such a reactor , the plans and equipment for which could have been supplied by China in 1990 [ see p. 38548 ] , had been built in the northern mountains . |
| 27 | It is possible that her attitude towards me could have been coloured , even determined , by her own suffering . |
| 28 | He left open the possibility that Girobank , recently privatised , could be made responsible for collecting repayments and chasing defaulters , the number of whom could rise significantly above the Government 's current estimates . |
| 29 | THE BLUEBIRD album is a collection of singing by men most of whom could n't , strictly , sing . |
| 30 | His closest companions on the European Tour are D J Russell and Martin Poxon , neither of whom could be called ‘ category one ’ players . |