Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these hot summer months prudent Japanese girls suppress the potential faux pas of erect nipples that could spring up from a cool blast of the air-conditioner by sticking on a handy pair of ‘ Nipples ’ . |
| 2 | But he could cash in with a lucrative return against the 24-year-old German early next year . |
| 3 | From this room she could see out through a wide window into a dense stand of woodland , which seemed to crowd together , not quite hiding a track leading to a small cave . |
| 4 | You could splash out on a kingsize Strata waterbed costing around £2,800 . |
| 5 | Having set the process of achieving an ever closer economic union once more in motion , almost inevitably concern arose in some quarters over the possibility that this could spill over into a closer political union . |
| 6 | Heston 's the only man who could drop out of a cubic moon — he 's so square [ very hip talk for 1964 ! ] . |
| 7 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 8 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 9 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 10 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 11 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 12 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 13 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 14 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 15 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 16 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 17 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 18 | If they were going along trying to open shop doors , they could go in as a suspected person loitering but it was n't looked upon very favourably by the courts . |
| 19 | Taking a lump sum reduces the pension you receive but , on the other hand if you invest the money wisely , you could end up with a higher income . |
| 20 | If you find a swim where you can trot down you could end up with a good bag of dace as large , individually , as those you may catch from the main river . |
| 21 | The source would not specify exactly which technologies Nynex proposes to use , but noted that ‘ it is likely that the 11 railways could end up with a digital backbone , which is very interesting given what 's going on in Brussels right now . |
| 22 | Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy . |
| 23 | If we did n't get the damage repaired , we could end up with a blind ship and fly ourselves into a black hole . |
| 24 | It could end up as a public dogfight . |
| 25 | The runners string out in a line across the road as it is unsafe to have them five or six deep ; if one of the front runners fell , sacks of coal and people could end up in a nasty heap . |
| 26 | The Council could end up in a net loss position as currently there is a non-alignment of EC Development programme priorities and Regional Council capital spending priorities . |
| 27 | If this frequency does n't suit you , now is the time to talk things through because otherwise you could end up in a longterm relationship in which sex is not what you thought it would be . |
| 28 | There are now worries in the City that the plunge in sterling could flare up into a full-blown crisis and , in the last resort , force the Government to raise interest rates even higher . |
| 29 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 30 | They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning . |