Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I buy a cup of tea so thin it could have been made by Rachel 's landlady , and I stare out through a steamed-up café window across the cold empty promenade . |
| 2 | Ian Woosnam came to Augusta National playing , in his own words , like a 24-handicapper , though those of us in that category just wish we could spray the ball similarly around the practice ground or putt it so waywardly . |
| 3 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 4 | An ex-IBMer on a British Rail sleeper recently complained he could put his VISA card into a machine somewhere 35,000 feet up , and put his computer in-bleeper to the phone mouthpiece , and it would automatically dial up his E-mail and give him his messages . |
| 5 | Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared . |
| 6 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
| 7 | There was one person still left who could confirm the story in that file . |
| 8 | Asik simply wished he could live closer to the village but he knew there was no way his grandparents would survive the move , so he trundled on and tried dearly not to think about it . |