Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but again y'know I could in theory provide some handouts for you which you could perhaps pick up at the end of the er of the lecture from the front or even have available in a general office for you , okay ? |
| 2 | And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was . |
| 3 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 4 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 5 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 6 | ‘ I was in the war , ’ the poppy-seller at Charing Cross said , to explain why he could not go along with the media insistence that this was a good news story . |
| 7 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 8 | The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil . |
| 9 | Clearly the town could not hold out without the castle , which the Duke contemptuously dismissed as ‘ an old hen-coop which he would speedily bring down about their ears ’ . |
| 10 | And when the ship was caught , and could not bear up into the wind , we let her drive . |
| 11 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 12 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 13 | You could not hunch up into the tree , hugging closer to the trunk . |
| 14 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |
| 15 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 16 | The dog leaped at the closest man who , encumbered with carbine and sword , could not cut down at the beast , then Sharpe 's mare slammed into the Frenchman 's horse and the big sword slashed down at the Dragoon . |
| 17 | The hospital management team for Claybury rejected the idea of the quadrant hospital concept , since this could not tie in with the principle of community care . |
| 18 | I could not keep up with the demands of trying to keep everyone happy , and in desperation to make sure I keep my looks , I gave up eating , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 19 | I was just beginning to get to grips with the Campaign for Ink Print Information , but Women 's Tapeover could not keep up with the steady stream of new feminist writing that was emerging week by week . |
| 20 | It could now be argued that , throughout the history of the earth , Nature had rewarded those who were able and energetic , and punished those who could not keep up with the race towards higher things . |
| 21 | Jackdaws are supposed to be great collectors , but even a jackdaw could not fly off with the hands , feet and eyeballs of a four year old crammed into its beak all at once . |
| 22 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 23 | He could not get on with the believing Jews from Eastern Europe whose religion and traditions he neither shared nor understood . |
| 24 | I was never happy all the time , but i could get no character and could not get out of the life . |
| 25 | It was then he found he could not get out of the finance deal . |
| 26 | Now I though he would have hysterics ; he could not get down on the ground quick enough to carry this action out . |
| 27 | And yet , she could not apply that anger to jealousy , she could not storm out across the field and challenge Wynne-Jones 's daughter for the body of the man they both , in their own ways , loved . |
| 28 | The movies succeeded because people could just walk in from the streets but from the beginning everything was done to ensure that as many people as possible were brought in . |
| 29 | But the way he 's going he could just end up as the next Vinnie Jones . |
| 30 | If you could just turn over to the next card now Bill . |