Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 2 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 3 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
| 4 | The experience of other countries and movements , particularly European social democracy , provided much from which they could learn ; and the future lay in a cooperative rather than confrontational relationship between the USSR and the wider world from which both sides could benefit . |
| 5 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |
| 6 | In spite of herself she watched his departing back , hating him for that supple arrogance in his walk , the way that simply by walking away from her he could fill her with an inexplicable , infuriating urge to run after him … |
| 7 | In fact now she was away from him she could think of a hundred and one things she should have said — done — and what the hell was the matter with this damned car ? |
| 8 | There must surely be somebody already in it who could do it . |
| 9 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 10 | If they 'd come straight to me we could have quietly got it done . |
| 11 | The order of events was the same each year : first , the bus or train ride to whatever town The Walk was to be held in ; then being stationed somewhere from which I could see the parade . |
| 12 | From where I was standing , far below me I could see a separate miniature fort linked to the mother fortress by an umbilical causeway . |
| 13 | They were accordingly satisfied that the trial judge misdirected the jury when he stated that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what they could find proved that he himself did . |
| 14 | talking about I mean us six er pe peasants we 've got a landlord , you know , oh shall we go and kill him , he , he 's got all the authority , he 's got armed militia , the works , now to me he could have |
| 15 | The Norman conquerors , in attempting to establish rights to land in England , undermined indigenous oral criteria for proof of ownership , by which they as newcomers were on weaker ground than native land owners , and set up centralised , bureaucratic procedures with emphasis on written documentation , records , cross-referencing etc. over which they could exercise greater control . |
| 16 | ‘ Yet you are the only man , ’ insisted the abbot mercilessly , but without pressing the suggestion to an accusation , ‘ who is known to have had reason to fear his coming here with what he could tell . |
| 17 | The spacious boot coped admirably with everything they could cram into it in one week — picnic hampers , the weekly shopping , even the latest buys from Sue 's visits to the garden centre . |
| 18 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |
| 19 | Straight ahead of him he could see the dome of the Texas State Capitol , second-largest in the nation after the Capitol in Washington , gleaming in the late-morning sun . |
| 20 | Already ahead of him he could see that he would marry , and it might be disastrously , he had that in him , but at the moment what he had was Rose Hilaire and Gabriel and it was 1966 . |
| 21 | Ahead of us we could see our ridge , standing clear of the cloud , brushed purple in the strange early light . |
| 22 | Ahead of us I could hear the noise of the waterfall — there had been plenty of rain and when we arrived at the foss , the beck that eventually joins the Ure to travel down Wensleydale was hammering over the lip of the force . |
| 23 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 24 | You had come back to me in order to show me your poems : there was no one else to whom you could show them . |
| 25 | I did n't give this observation a lot of thought until my father 's death left me with no one else to whom I could turn . |
| 26 | He scored in the shootout , and with the page three girl too from what I could make out . |