Example sentences of "could [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They squat on ragged patches of grass like abandoned containers , painted bright colours , stuffed with more than anyone could want of Do-It-Yourself Equipment , Garden Furniture or , in one case , pure Leather . |
| 2 | all that godliness , honour and love could make of a knight was combined in Don Rodrigo … |
| 3 | hero-narrator of Great Expectations , known as ‘ Pip ’ because , as he explains , ‘ my father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll hang myself , ’ I used to mutter over and over again , or for a change I would stare at my shotgun and wonder at the sort of mess I could make of myself . |
| 5 | Exactly that passage from The Wanderer , for instance , is paraphrased by Aragorn in chapter 6 of The Two Towers : a candid mind might have looked to see what Tolkien could make of it . |
| 6 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 7 | She would find Mrs McMahon when she came back , and Feargal could make of that what he would . |
| 8 | I repeat what I have always said : 175 is the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the number required after the transitional period to carry out the duties that I have described . |
| 9 | My figures were the best estimates that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the numbers required to carry out the policy that I have laid before the House . |
| 10 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 11 | Contact with famous name international firms undoubtedly encourages local manufacturers , impressed by the demonstration effect of the success of prestigious foreign firms , to consider seriously the uses they could make of the new technologies . |
| 12 | My father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip . |
| 13 | Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow . |
| 14 | " Why does n't your father tell him to go ? " asked Clara , for from what she could recollect of Mr Denham , she could not picture him suffering fools gladly . |
| 15 | she could think of nothing but her son . |
| 16 | Both men were dubious about how long someone would be able to endure in the winter , equally they could think of no alternative . |
| 17 | I could think of nothing except going to London and finding my way among its tall buildings studded with lights . |
| 18 | All I could think of was that joke — ‘ What has four legs and an arm ? |
| 19 | ‘ Any damn fool … could think of questions ; it was answers that separated the men from the boys . ’ |
| 20 | If we could think of a better system we would introduce it . |
| 21 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 22 | She knew she would not cheat and take that option , and she could think of no other . |
| 23 | ‘ It was the greatest incentive I could think of . |
| 24 | ‘ We did everything that we could think of to get the name Balbirnie flying up there , ’ Brown says . |
| 25 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 26 | ‘ Better files than people , I told him , but that did not interest him : all he could think of was the files . ’ |
| 27 | The busker who plays Chariots Of Fire on a Casio organ at Bank would leave it in a trice if only he could think of some other way of turning a penny . |
| 28 | Meinhard Miegel , once a Christian Democratic politician , who heads the Institut für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft ( Institute for Economics and Society ) in Bonn , could think of no influential German think-tank — even the one run by Greens — that did not accept the basic tenets of the social market . |
| 29 | He is not , he says , one who ‘ detracts from the existence or reality of things ’ ; and anyone who thinks otherwise ‘ is very far from understanding what hath been premised in the plainest terms I could think of ’ . |
| 30 | It was the only person he could think of . |