Example sentences of "could [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peaks of these helmets , however , were sharpened up with the aid of a file and ‘ nutting ’ someone whilst wearing such a weapon , he claimed , could literally chop their head off . |
| 2 | No wonder , Blanche realised , Swod could only pinion his face into the imitation of a smile . |
| 3 | Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag . |
| 4 | ‘ Why — is he going away quite soon ? ’ asked Felicity in dismay , and Breeze could only gaze at her in astonishment . |
| 5 | Since it was Dane 's name on the hoardings which had sold out the theatre on opening night and for several weeks to come , Josh 's kindness brought a painful lump to her throat , and she could only gaze at him in mute gratitude . |
| 6 | Startled , Theda could only gaze at him . |
| 7 | She could not look away , could only gaze back at him , wondering what he sought . |
| 8 | For a second she could only gaze at him , completely at a loss . |
| 9 | Stephen Pears made a fine save but could only palm the ball into the path of Steve Butler . |
| 10 | But on forty one minutes it was Milton who took the lead as new signee from A E R Harwell , Robbie Munn , was on hand to slide the ball home from close range as Matt Utteridge in the Bishops ' goal could only palm away Nigel Mott 's probing cross to send Milton in at the interval leading by a goal to nil . |
| 11 | His price could soon rocket if Blackburn challenge Leeds and Arsenal for his signature . |
| 12 | As for his arm , she decided , it could just fester and drop off as far as she was concerned . |
| 13 | He could just beef-up . |
| 14 | If I just knew where he was prepared to stand and then could just sort of do the things round about . |
| 15 | I mean if you were being really dangerous and you wanted to die soon you could just sort of get a piece of bare wire and |
| 16 | You could just sort of tuck it in here under her waistband . |
| 17 | If he hurried he could easily cycle to the barrow , make a thorough search , and be back in his bed before the household started to stir at 7 . |
| 18 | The Board could easily stage and manage any world cup through its own , almost unlimited resources . |
| 19 | In the hills above the ruins of Capernaum near the Mount of Beatitudes we stopped at a natural grassy amphitheatre which could easily seat 10,000 . |
| 20 | But they had no-one to explain the uses of what they learned and knowledge of itself could easily overbalance a carefully structured society . |
| 21 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 22 | Those who thought it would fall to pieces within 5000 miles were confounded , even if those who hoped it would sail the test with BMW-like dependability could hardly crow about its reliability record . |
| 23 | Yet he could hardly finesse or cost-cut his way out of a serious downturn there . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , local newspaper reports say Peking is concerned that this could further fuel calls for greater democracy in Hong Kong , where the British government now seems more committed to increasing the pace of political reform . |
| 25 | He was accustomed to conventional envy from some of his contemporaries ( although it could still distress him — Joseph Chiari recalls him leaving a party in Edinburgh because of the atmosphere of jealousy which he sensed there ) . |
| 26 | How could more money be found to support the proposed and alternative schemes under the Regulation ? |
| 27 | We could always farm things out to freelances . |
| 28 | You could , you could seat if you did , sort of classroom seating in there a , room this size in that , er , you could , you could probably seat six hundred people . |
| 29 | I often think I wish you know we could capture some of those again I think it would jolly well I , I , I wish government could , could really sort of kn know what it was like . |
| 30 | Through their series of public meetings and the springing up of local action groups , the campaign returned to each individual farmer and landowner the decision as to whether the companies could even prospect . |