Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange how she could think about Jenny now without feeling so sick . |
| 2 | With such equipment , staff could work from home instead of commuting to offices . |
| 3 | The United States could , and did , also claim that it actually required a greater surplus than this so that it could begin to chip away at the huge ‘ overhang ’ of dollar liabilities with a view to restoring convertibility of the dollar to the SDR ( special drawing rights ) once confidence had been restored . |
| 4 | Avalanche experts were predicting that the prolonged spell of sub-zero temperatures above 2,500ft after the snowfalls could lead to problems later in the winter as new snow falling on top of the frozen snow pack would not bond easily to the lower layers . |
| 5 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 6 | The jamming and bridging got steeper — with the one big consolation that , strength permitting , you could pop in nuts almost at will — until he reached a ledge which elsewhere he would have regarded as a slab to be climbed , but here seemed a spacious refuge . |