Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Stych wrung her hands behind the reporter 's back , and wished passionately she could run home to Mother on the pig farm ; she longed suddenly for the smell of hens and milk , for a place where nobody had to keep up appearances or be other than what they were . |
| 2 | Consequently , she decided to walk northwards along the edge of the moor , safe in the knowledge that if the snow should begin to fall again before she found George , she only needed to make her way downwards and she would come across Hodge Beck , which she could follow southwards to safety . |
| 3 | ‘ The sort you could take home to mother ? ’ |
| 4 | I wish we could go straight to bed instead of this bloody reception ! ’ |
| 5 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that , if the Government were to introduce proposals to toughen up sentencing policy — to impose stiffer sentences — we could look forward to Opposition Members agreeing with us for the first time ? |
| 6 | Well , ’ I said , ‘ we could run away to sea and be sailors . |
| 7 | If CBS , NBC , ABC , the BBC — anybody — wanted to up-link video they 'd shot in Beirut they could go either to Damascus or Nicosia . |
| 8 | They were fed and sheltered here in Assisi and in other monasteries and church buildings until they could get away to South America . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 10 | Prosecutors in Nowy Sacz province had instituted proceedings for criminal slander of a state official , which carried a maximum eight-year prison sentence , and following his defeat by Walesa in the December 1990 run-off election Tyminski had been required to post bail of US$100,000 before he could fly home to Canada . |