Example sentences of "[noun prp] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she did n't change it , I suppose Doogie could always poison it . |
| 2 | Inspector Blakelock or Brend Pridmore could easily have had occasion to go there . |
| 3 | Without Gollum Good could never have succeeded in destroying Evil and when the Ring is gone the Elves feel forced to leave Middle Earth because there is nothing more for them to do . |
| 4 | But Amin Rajan could also be right in predicting that financial houses will have a declining influence in the City . |
| 5 | Like his father , who had appointed him bishop , Richard could only admire the courage and saintliness of Hugh of Lincoln . |
| 6 | Although he tried hard to do so , Richard could never see how anyone could live without things in working order . |
| 7 | David could never do those things . |
| 8 | Corbett could scarcely understand some of the accents and contented himself with gazing around . |
| 9 | Corbett could hardly understand their accent and was thankful for the stout staff his guide carried and so expertly used to make their way through the milling crowd . |
| 10 | ‘ A pity , ’ Bruce murmured so quietly that Corbett could hardly hear him . |
| 11 | Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey . |
| 12 | For his part , Corbett could only fret and decided to draw up a memorandum on what he had learnt so far : |
| 13 | Corbett could only nod and turned to lead his horse from the abbey gates , when Selkirk called out , ‘ Mind you , Corbett , for an English clerk , you have some good qualities , and that is praise indeed from a Scotsman ! ’ |
| 14 | Ari could hardly muster any enthusiasm . |
| 15 | Zambia accompanied Nathan back to the screen room , and in the space of that short time , gleaned more information than Tammuz could ever hope to . |
| 16 | TRY as they might , no one close to Frankie Howerd could ever improve his image . |
| 17 | Britta could hardly believe what she had seen . |
| 18 | Wilfrid could well have transferred his allegiance to an otherwise unknown prince of Oswald 's line when he lost his patron in Ealhfrith . |
| 19 | Husayn could only contemplate this option with equanimity if most of the Palestine refugees moved out of his territory — presumably back to Palestine , an issue considered in the next chapter . |
| 20 | Donna could only shrug . |
| 21 | Bernice could hardly resist the urge to turn and run , but she supported Defries and retreated step by step . |
| 22 | His voice was so low that Bernice could hardly hear him . |
| 23 | Hari could just see a shape outlined against the uncovered glass , she had forgotten to put dad 's apron over the window . |
| 24 | Hari could almost feel the silence as the three of them worked industriously , cutting , stitching and shaping the leather into something beautiful . |
| 25 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
| 26 | Faldo could also be disciplined after being heard to swear on TV when a spectator took a photograph at the ninth and Faldo scored a six . |
| 27 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 28 | She prayed that Maisie could somehow see how well her boy had done for himself , and how he had come to regret the hatred that almost destroyed him . |
| 29 | After Elinor was dead , he and Maisie could really get to know each other , thought Henry . |
| 30 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |