Example sentences of "[coord] [indef pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all other areas it either was not an issue or nothing could be arranged . |
| 2 | ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed . |
| 3 | Or somebody could tell me . |
| 4 | Or one could regulate the output voltage in some way . |
| 5 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 6 | Or one could treat the hypothesis as a provisional truth-claim . |
| 7 | The apartment was self-catering , or one could eat in one of the hotel restaurants . |
| 8 | If there 's any mentioning of him in The Yorkshire Post or something could someone post some excerpts ? ? |
| 9 | Well not necessarily it could have some loopy beads or something could n't you ? |
| 10 | or anybody could do in that situation is having asked a question , they 're a bit hesitant about er , the next question then simply throw in there to buy yourself some time something like ee , is that all ? |
| 11 | She telephoned offering to help when my wife was ill and when I said there was nothing she or anyone could do , she did n't keep fussing . |
| 12 | There was no more he or anyone could do . |
| 13 | Yeah , but you see , you 've got the , you got all the other things in , down , down , underneath , well I mean if you started going in with a knife and you started cutting them I mean you could cut an artery or anything could n't you ? |
| 14 | Yeah , but you see you 've got the , you 've got all the , the other things ins , down , down it , underneath , and I mean if you started going in with a knife and you started cutting down , I mean you could sa , cut an artery or anything could n't you ? |
| 15 | Raoul dabbed at his nose with the back of his hand , and everyone could see the resulting scarlet streak . |
| 16 | The therapist and the group jointly answered those irrational statements , and everyone could see the funny side of the bizarre nature of her final image . |
| 17 | Kathleen evidently ran things around here and nothing could be done without her say-so . |
| 18 | There 's a listening service via the telephone to let parents eat with peace of mind , and nothing could surpass the service in the dining room . |
| 19 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 20 | It was her age she supposed , and nothing could be done about it . |
| 21 | Just the same , Wyss found himself sliding , and sensed the others sliding back too , and nothing could stop them . |
| 22 | Rather breathlessly , he told her that despite this , no one and nothing could take from them what had been . |
| 23 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 24 | She had come to the Centre in the depths of despair , weeping , gnashing her teeth and venting her hatred upon the doctors who had told her , at the eleventh hour that she had cancer and nothing could be done . |
| 25 | I think they felt that having survived so far , they were now leading charmed lives and nothing could get them . |
| 26 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 27 | Firelight shone on festoons of holly , making the berries glow like rubies , and nothing could taste better than the chicken and the plum pudding Mrs Martin had cooked . |
| 28 | You could shrug your shoulders , put on a face that said you did n't care , but you did and nothing could ever be secure again . |
| 29 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 30 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |