Example sentences of "could [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That could be anywhere , that could or here . |
| 2 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 3 | The evolution of huge but cheap storage capacities in computers , accessible instantaneously , could and probably will revolutionise both the professional work and financial management methods of surveying firms in the years to come . |
| 4 | A tale , which could and probably will be repeated a thousand times , of the fate of a work of art shaken loose from its context by the tempest of World War II |
| 5 | There remains a complaint which Nozick could and probably would make . |
| 6 | A day which could and probably would change my life , or so I thought . |
| 7 | They may also have had misgivings about the power and influence of residential staff over children , and the potential abuses which could and sometimes do occur . |
| 8 | They could and often did , but that does not mean that practical considerations could be ignored : as a line in one of John Clare 's poems has it : " Love without money brings winter for life " . |
| 9 | Either they are doing the work that younger people could and perhaps should be doing ; or they are part of a growing population of retired people whose idleness is creating social and financial difficulties for the rest of the productive population . |
| 10 | To is required with the infinitive in order to represent this movement from a before-position when the event was not yet realized — at which point , according to the speaker , it could and perhaps should have been prevented from occurring — to an after-position corresponding to its actual realization . |
| 11 | In London you could be robbed , mugged , murdered , even , and no one would take the blindest bit of notice , yet here , in this little backwater , they 'd done all they could and more . |
| 12 | ‘ We tried to recover all the pieces that we could and still hope to recover more parts , ’ Kermit said . |
| 13 | ‘ He certainly could and almost certainly will . ’ |
| 14 | Jane escaped as soon as she could and never went back , though she once saw ‘ madame ’ tango at a press party . |
| 15 | ‘ John was away a great deal , Laura and I travelled to join him in the constituency when we could and inevitably there was uncertainty and strain in the air . ’ |
| 16 | I stayed in the cafe for as long as I felt I could and then went back outside . |
| 17 | During dinner that evening with her sister Jane , she ate everything she could and then was promptly sick . |
| 18 | And er helped all you could and then er |
| 19 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 20 | She 'd fought the sensation as long as she could and then she 'd done something she 'd never done before , she 'd deliberately looked into the sea of faces , looked unerringly to the rear of the crowded room … |
| 21 | Kee kept them quite for as long as he could and then from nowhere … from nothing United burst into life and went and took the lead … |
| 22 | She said I could and then she were messing about you see . |
| 23 | then you could you could and then you could measure it and see if three of them |
| 24 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 25 | Er suggested that the officers have a joint meeting and get together and actually ask them what transport to be given the figures er for night flights so that they could and so on , and I know by the recent customer complaints and I believe members attended the meeting of those four Councils so that I think that discuss that . |
| 26 | You are very kind to have thought of him and when I gave him your kiss he gave me a hundred in return to pass on to you believing I could and indeed I wish he was correct in his supposition . |
| 27 | Time , the best of all doctors , though he kills you in the end , had done more than therapy could and now days would pass , weeks , without Rufus thinking of Ecalpemos at all . |
| 28 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 29 | At the cab rank they went to the shelter , where drivers could while away the night hours in warmth and obtain food . |
| 30 | A vile joke — he could as well sprout wings and fly straight up to the sun as find that sum ! |