Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I do n't go along with Roman I could well land in gaol , and I would n't be any good to anyone behind bars , would I ? |
| 2 | To be quite honest I could just go to bed . |
| 3 | Two of the ruffians seized me , pushing me against the fence , and I could only gabble in horror as their leader drew a long , thin stiletto and pulled back my shirt to expose my throat . |
| 4 | We can all watch for the Labour block vote at the end of this debate as a matter of principle , I could never vote in support of the Labour whip . |
| 5 | I could never fall in love with fibatube . |
| 6 | But I could always work from home . |
| 7 | I could always retire on disablement pension , find some quiet town , a town on a river , where there 'd be some fishing . |
| 8 | ‘ I could almost believe in magic , ’ Francis said , raising his voice above the howling storm . |
| 9 | No hard and fast rules governed the setting up and running of the joint authorities , which could simply go for post-sharing and joint-buying or could opt for combined contracting . |
| 10 | The pragmatists , who would like to have it both ways , believe that raising taxes will bring any incipient recovery to a halt , by putting up prices and reducing the spending power of consumers , who already face the prospect of sharply falling pay settlements , which could well dip below inflation this year . |
| 11 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 12 | You 're just looking to see if there are any aspects of a person 's drive where , you know , one or two habits might have crept in which could possibly encroach upon safety margins to some extent . |
| 13 | If she could just stay on top … |
| 14 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 15 | But , before she could really get under way , from one side of the church , the one that leads out to the dustbins , came a group of three or four people one of whom I recognized as Sheldon |
| 16 | What on earth was she thinking about — she could never fall in love with him ! |
| 17 | Rolling over was a painful if not too difficult manoeuvre , but , even with Travis helping all he could , it was an exhausting process trying to find his pocket and reach into it when she could only go by touch . |
| 18 | There was such comfort , such happiness with him that she could only sigh with pleasure . |
| 19 | She could only watch in horror from the street as a local man and soldiers battled bravely to save four-year-old Stacey and two-year-old Ciara from the blaze . |
| 20 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 21 | ‘ And that from an Aussie ? ’ she was startled into answering , then went pink when he gave her a look of what she could only describe as approval . |
| 22 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 23 | She reckoned that she could only take on board a limited number of surprises in any given period , and her quota for the year had just been reached . |
| 24 | She could almost pass for human . |
| 25 | He pushed her gently down on to the settee and sat so close to her that she could hardly breathe for fear that she 'd betray how much she wanted him . |
| 26 | Colonel Burrows rallied her troops ; the people in the property council , the villagers who could now sit in comfort . |
| 27 | In patients who could potentially benefit from treatment of advanced disease ( those with breast , gynaecological , prostate , or thyroid tumours ) the specificity was at least 68% and would be of clinical value . |
| 28 | They certainly did n't choose to drop out of society like their New York City equivalents who could always return to daddy 's money ; rather , theirs is a quest to reflect the plight of the dispossessed and let them know they 're not alone , to offer the disaffected hope , and to somehow go beyond merely preaching to those who already understand . |
| 29 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 30 | The result , apparently , was a dramatic increase in sales , and no doubt a hidden bonus of contented customers who could actually understand in autumn why nothing had happened to ‘ those blasted seeds ’ they had planted in the spring . |