Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I used Arches hot-pressed paper I could also lift the pigment off with a brush if the colour was too heavy . |
| 2 | From there I could see the other islands , and I could also see a boat , far out to sea . |
| 3 | I could also see the colour of paint I was using due to the pearly-white bristles . |
| 4 | I could also see the rock that Neil had pointed out to me , still half out of water . |
| 5 | I could also see the potential that Llanbrynmair had to offer ( it took Carole a little longer to see te potential ) and was very eager to start renovation . |
| 6 | I could also see the spire of the Church of Scotland in Porteneil , and some smoke coming up from the town chimneys . |
| 7 | However , as I steered our motor dory into the tricky south landing with the tide pouring through jagged rocks , intermittently obscured by swell and sea tangle , I could well imagine the island 's isolation in winter and bad weather . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 9 | To calculate the net present value one takes into account claims frequency , average claim , growth of premiums and so on , so if I added business that generated far more claims , I could easily reduce the value of the company . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If I wanted , I could easily provide a sibling for Emily without all the bother of getting married . ’ |
| 11 | I became really depressed because no matter how much I loved my children or tried to take care of them , I could neither keep the doctor at bay or the fungus that was destroying everything that it came into contact with . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've no objection which part of it you want to explore , but I could strongly recommend the bedroom . |
| 13 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 14 | By the time I had packed the things from the wardrobe and stuffed her toilet things on the top I could barely shut the case . |
| 15 | I could barely boil an egg . |
| 16 | ‘ I could even pay the dowry . ’ |
| 17 | As zero hour was reached , and punctually to the very minute our barrage lifted , through my glasses I could clearly observe our skirmishers leave their trenches and move steadily forward ; here and there I could even distinguish the smoke puffs of bursting bombs . |
| 18 | I could even play the lead role . ’ |
| 19 | I could even put a tag on a few customers . |
| 20 | I do n't know if I could even get a job as a junior salesman . |
| 21 | I could even imagine a frying pan leaping into the fire . |
| 22 | Subject : I could even support the scum now ! |
| 23 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
| 24 | If I could just make a point about affordable housing chairman , of course the department recognizes that there is a problem of affordable housing as evidenced by minister 's statements but the view of my policy colleagues in headquarters is that this is most appropriately addresses in district wide plans and not necessarily at structure plan level . |
| 25 | I could , I could , I could just chuck a saucepan here could n't I ? |
| 26 | Erm , if I could just bring the committee up to date on one or two things that have happened in relation to the district auditor 's report . |
| 27 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 28 | Ah went in to where John were working cos I wanted to borrow a spanner , he said I could just murder a cig and his , his mate said ah I could as well . |
| 29 | If I could just get a role doing some of the falls in the action replays , say , I could save him from horrible injury , or at least the odd booking . |
| 30 | It had a red and yellow band on which I could just read the word Cubana . |