Example sentences of "[pron] could make " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could make a floor plan of Father 's study , and I 'm good at listening behind doors . |
| 2 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |
| 3 | A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road . |
| 4 | I could make out two soldiers standing in a slit trench , they look like Airborne troops judging by the type of steel helmet they are wearing . |
| 5 | Dholuo was the language and I knew I was an encumbrance until I could make myself understood . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’ |
| 7 | I thought that I could make my contribution by joining the Trade Union movement , and improve things from there . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And I thought I could make mine by designing and making better products , and selling them to the world , ’ said Mark . |
| 9 | I could make anything |
| 10 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 11 | I could make a hole in the lid and feed balls of string through . |
| 12 | ‘ What I thought — well , if you 're agreeable , if it 'd be of help — between now and August , I could make a model of St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 13 | ‘ Hold on , are you saying that , if I wanted to , I could make people do things , obey me and stuff ? ’ |
| 14 | Maybe if I could make myself invisible , then I could walk down a street without feeling on trial for the way I look . |
| 15 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 16 | You love it here , and I could make it possible for you to remain here . |
| 17 | ‘ I could make my mark , Miss , ’ he ventured . |
| 18 | She was 5ft 4in ( ’ though I could make myself 5ft 5in ’ ) , had a 23in waist ( ’ yes , I was a normal girl ’ ) , and could kick so high that two legs became a straight line . |
| 19 | ‘ But I could make the aeroplane . |
| 20 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
| 21 | Even if I could make an impression it 'd be the worst thing I could do . |
| 22 | Money also came into the equation : ‘ To be honest , another reason for choosing a smaller marathon was that I could make more than by entering a big autumn marathon , like New York or Chicago . |
| 23 | When I said ‘ English ’ he started on some obscure anecdote in which I could make out little except the name ‘ Margaret ’ and the repetition of ‘ kato , kato ’ , ‘ down , down ’ . |
| 24 | I could make no comment . |
| 25 | I got involved because his family live some way away and they asked me if I could make the arrangements , sort things out until they got there . |
| 26 | We agreed on the use of Gordon Ingles for another commercial film and Leon suggested I could make any necessary further contact on such matters directly with Hellen who was apparently designing film sets , writing scripts and sometimes directing Shelly productions . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll hang myself , ’ I used to mutter over and over again , or for a change I would stare at my shotgun and wonder at the sort of mess I could make of myself . |
| 28 | I could make neither head nor tail of it and decided I was dealing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps I could make one or two notes , only a formality . |
| 30 | It meant that , by carefully counting and scoring different animal actions in given time periods , I could make complicated analyses that helped to unravel the intricate behaviour patterns that existed in so many species . |