Example sentences of "[adv] could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You obviously could of got . |
| 2 | He alone could at once restore the unity of England and Normandy , which was important for many great families . |
| 3 | The figure I think that we , yes I wonder if Mrs Long could re to that particular question ? |
| 4 | I was still off the chain so could at least go to the little bathroom and fill the others ' water-bottles and empty their pee-bottles . |
| 5 | The advantage of having a text in computerised form is that you can find things in it very easily using computerised search techniques , and you can do more complicated searches than you ever could with a printed concordance . |
| 6 | All in good time you will have a bed partner and let me tell you , you will care for her far more than you ever could for this one . |
| 7 | To do Haverford justice , he was n't altogether happy about his lack of rapport with his daughter ; at times he came as near as he ever could to feeling guilty about it . |
| 8 | If this ostrich only knew , he would gain more marks by posing the legal difficulty , even though he suggested no solution , than he ever could by blinking it completely . |
| 9 | I feel now that I can express myself better than I ever could in the last fifteen years ; I 've even gotten into the Mississippi Delta style , fingerpicking blues . |
| 10 | She had to get away — had to put as much distance as she possibly could between herself and the man who 'd abused her trust so callously . |
| 11 | That is why he spent as much time as he possibly could outside the ring , talking about anything but the council tax . |
| 12 | ‘ I did everything I possibly could for that girl . |
| 13 | She could n't take their mother 's place , of course , but for Liz 's sake she must try to do everything she possibly could for the little girls . |
| 14 | The needlework box clutched to her chest , she added , ‘ And did n't you want Terry to look the best she possibly could on her wedding day ? ’ |
| 15 | Waltz 's criticism of Kaplan to the effect that rules do not make a system invites a hermeneutic retort that nothing else possibly could in the social world . |
| 16 | Preston tried to keep his fears from the twins but he also kept them as far from the edges and ends of the platform as he possibly could in case of beast attacks . |
| 17 | When Saturday night eventually came , two swollen-footed , limb-aching , shattered soldiers covered as much of the city as they possibly could in three hours with only five shillings each to spend , a problem that limited their discussions on which pub to select . |
| 18 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ The key requirement was that we look after our people as well as we possibly could in these extreme circumstances . |
| 19 | In each of the referendum campaigns since his return ( September 1958 , January 1961 , April 1962 ) , the government had manipulated the outcome as much as it decently could in a democratic system . |
| 20 | I know I probably could of had one right from the word go |
| 21 | I mean I I really could of a I mean I hired that ladder just to do about six foot either side . |
| 22 | Always , that we now could of , do with one or two suitable workers er there were problems throughout trade . |
| 23 | Well could of had a new one . |
| 24 | We should have left it there could of been more than this one . |
| 25 | I 'm sure someone else could of dealt with it better as a |
| 26 | Girls can identify with her in a way they never could with , say , Linda Evangelista . ’ |
| 27 | Another factor which may influence the chances of conventional videodisc players is that in the 1990s , the collection of high quality , permanent recordings of movies and other programming might appeal in a way it never could in the early 1980s . |
| 28 | These grievances and demands remained and although they did not drive the students out onto the streets of the capital this time to demonstrate , it was clear that they certainly could at some time in the near future . |