Example sentences of "and [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raoul dabbed at his nose with the back of his hand , and everyone could see the resulting scarlet streak . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To throw up an impenetrable Berlin Wall between you and them could be tactless . |
| 4 | Kathleen evidently ran things around here and nothing could be done without her say-so . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 7 | It was her age she supposed , and nothing could be done about it . |
| 8 | Just the same , Wyss found himself sliding , and sensed the others sliding back too , and nothing could stop them . |
| 9 | Rather breathlessly , he told her that despite this , no one and nothing could take from them what had been . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I think they felt that having survived so far , they were now leading charmed lives and nothing could get them . |
| 13 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They took up the whole of the street and nothing could move until this sea of humanity had passed by . ’ |
| 19 | When we were satisfied that all the holes in the walls , main door , loft door and roof were sealed up , and nothing could get in or out , we turned our attention to the exterior . |
| 20 | It seems to be a feature almost peculiar to this country , and nothing could be healthier for scholarship . |
| 21 | Nobody and nothing could get at them . |
| 22 | Art school , university , we were going out of Yorkshire and nothing could stop us . |
| 23 | He and his son John protested their innocence to a Parliamentary committee , and nothing could be proved against them . |
| 24 | She would go that afternoon to fetch water from the fountain , she liked doing that anyway , and nothing could come of it to hurt her , there were always plenty of others there , and she 'd give Tommaso a sign , so that he 'd come , come at night to find her , that was the way it was done , she 'd seen it , becks and smiles under half-dosed eyes as the water brimmed in the young women 's jars . |
| 25 | And nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 26 | Nothing could hurt her mother now and nothing could hurt her father even . |
| 27 | To hell with reason , she was scared today : what if she 'd lost her way , and nothing could put her on the right track . |
| 28 | And nothing could be more marvellous to sing than parts of the church scene . |
| 29 | I think has summed up quite well there I think , which , what everyone 's aims is , which is that we want an effective and efficient police force , which everyone has got confidence in to make sure that it protects citizens against crime in this country , and nothing could be , I do n't think anybody who is erm , civilised in this county or this country would want anything different . |
| 30 | There 's also the odd curiosity … and nothing could more than unusual than this Peugeot 205 . |