Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could never hope to keep pace with or understand it . |
| 2 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |
| 3 | The Roman refining techniques were such that they could easily have produced silver containing only traces of copper ( under 1 per cent ) . |
| 4 | The hedges suggested that , in May , they could well have obstructed vision . |
| 5 | Bunny raised no more than than an eyebrow and we shouldered our way through to the hall where Dosh and Freddie were discovering that they could really get to like Kümmel . |
| 6 | Professor Mathias correctly sees the high demand of the war years for cereals as keeping agricultural wages up with prices , but they started from such a low level that in years of scarcity like 1795 and 1801 they could hardly have sustained life . |
| 7 | Custom of the manor defined peasant obligations , but it could also help to determine peasant rights . |
| 8 | It could then have pleaded force of circumstances and lack of resources , not as a defence but as an excuse . |
| 9 | How he could ever have bowled legspin so successfully with his fraught temperament is a marvel in itself . |