Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 2 | Although she knew they were both wrong she could n't apportion blame to either of them , not yet , at any rate ; the only thing she knew at the moment was that what she had heard tied her to this house and the business as if she had signed a contract giving away her life . |
| 3 | The day Richard started teaching , he was so nervous he could n't eat breakfast . |
| 4 | The Anchor brewery had been built in 1757 by a couple of brewers from Bethnal Green called Wastfield and Moss , at a time when the district was so quiet and un-built-up you could still see ships passing on the Thames from the brewery windows . |
| 5 | I was soaked to the skin , my hands so cold I could hardly keep hold of the tiller . |
| 6 | Because when she was little she could n't say Jessica |
| 7 | ( Who ever heard of a mother falling so ill she could not take care of her household , whereas everywhere there were men drunk , mad , gaoled , old , worn out-who had become as children again to their wives ? ) |
| 8 | His hands were cold He could n't tell fish from weed . |
| 9 | Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 10 | The pattern of symptoms in this patient refutes the theory that the reason why x , y and z co-occur is that they all reflect damage to a single system ( since if that theory were true you could never get x without y ) ; indeed , this patient shows that there actually is no syndrome ( in the theoretical sense ) defined by the joint occurrence of all three symptoms . |