Example sentences of "[verb] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few questions about playability , resilience and notching could keep them in order ! |
| 2 | you know kind of build on , build on the criticism as it were and build on the things that people say could improve it erm |
| 3 | Police are keen to recover her stolen black handbag , which they say could help them find to her attackers . |
| 4 | He says that anyone who wants to be noticed could drive it . |
| 5 | Detective Inspector Jim McEwan , who has been studying the case files for a year , confirmed that he and another senior detective , Chief Inspector Ricky Gray , had travelled to England as a result of the information to interview a man who they believed could help them with the inquiry . |
| 6 | Detective Inspector Jim McEwan , who has been studying the case files for a year , confirmed that he and Chief Inspector Ricky Gray had gone to England as a result of the information to interview a man who they believed could help them with the inquiry . |
| 7 | Well , in my observation , as regards young boys , it er th they played could play them up , the lads would play pranks on the teacher , who would put the best on it for a long time . |
| 8 | Nothing Mr Landor could do could touch her any longer — she could endure rages , witness violence and not flicker an eyelid . |
| 9 | Anyone passing could hear you loud and clear . ’ |
| 10 | In an attempt to reduce the death toll , one police force has launched a campaign to get a simple message across to cyclists — that being seen could save them from being killed . |
| 11 | If gazing could gobble you up , she 'd have been picked clean . |
| 12 | The trust said prices would be about two-thirds of market value and those who could not afford to buy could rent them through a housing association . |
| 13 | Many of Britain 's civil servants have been on strike in protest at what they see as moves towards privatisation which they believe could cost them their jobs . |
| 14 | They were able to request anything they wanted from their administrative colleagues which they felt could aid them on any given mission . |
| 15 | But when Clift confided in her about his homosexual tendencies , she referred him to a colleague whom she felt could help him infinitely more than she could . |
| 16 | Most enclosed a gift — ‘ please , please accept it Hannah — I feel I owe you such a lot ’ — ranging from cheques up to one hundred pounds from people one hoped could afford it , down to postal orders for fifty pence from pensioners . |
| 17 | But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game . |
| 18 | It 's a very very important game and if United could do it , well they really could revive a lot of this season . |
| 19 | I found myself wondering anxiously whether anyone we knew could overhear us . |
| 20 | This paper is intended to examine how changing the way branches are run could enable us to get more members involved and expand the work done . |
| 21 | Not even a plea from his six-year-old granddaughter to let Big Daddy go could free him . |
| 22 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
| 23 | The area and the area steps , and the street-door and the street-door steps , and the brass handle , and the door-plate , and the knocker , and the fanlight , were all as clean and bright as indefatigable whitewashing , and hearthstoning , and scrubbing and rubbing could make them . |
| 24 | Nothing he did could hurt her now . |
| 25 | And nothing he did could force her to look at him . |
| 26 | Of course , windmills could be placed offshore , then perhaps there might be something attractive to seeing these structures out at sea at some distance — they could even be beyond the horizon — but they thought that they are whirling round usefully providing our energy I think could make them acceptable , and there is no doubt that the worldwide research and success in windmill research at the moment would suggest that wind power is within sight , but the economic investment and the problems of siting certainly mean that it will be only introduced gradually . |
| 27 | Can you think of any more modern day people that you think could inspire you and can show the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives ? |
| 28 | And when I get a moment I 'll get down to noting any facts I think could help you . |
| 29 | I think could chop them up and use them to make road surfaces with . |
| 30 | Changing just one or two of the annoyances you mention could help you to feel more positive and give you confidence to tackle further change . |