Example sentences of "[verb] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few questions about playability , resilience and notching could keep them in order ! |
| 2 | It merely appeared to him a paradox worth someone 's attention : how a man such as Thorkel described could inspire what Thorkel undoubtedly felt for him . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Police are keen to recover her stolen black handbag , which they say could help them find to her attackers . |
| 5 | He says that anyone who wants to be noticed could drive it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nothing Mr Landor could do could touch her any longer — she could endure rages , witness violence and not flicker an eyelid . |
| 10 | Anyone passing could hear you loud and clear . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But I knew that the sounds I had heard could have nothing to do with a servant 's dream . |
| 13 | What factors do you think could change their reliance on such services ? |
| 14 | And nothing she could think could raise her arm |
| 15 | ANYONE with $130m to spare could do something sensible , like buy Cray Research , an American supercomputer maker , or Vickers , a venerable British engineering company . |
| 16 | If gazing could gobble you up , she 'd have been picked clean . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No amount of male kindness or pleading could reduce its fear . |
| 19 | He was neither forgiving nor generous because the heroic figure , the truly great man , having nothing to resent could have nothing to forgive . |
| 20 | As the hobby of metal detecting in Britain has a present following of a quarter of a million people ( plus sympathetic friends and family ) the way we vote could decide which party is to come to power . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They were able to request anything they wanted from their administrative colleagues which they felt could aid them on any given mission . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the Garden : Drawing the line at great design : Anna Pavord delves into a book that reveals the gardens architects have imagined could accompany their creations |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It 's a very very important game and if United could do it , well they really could revive a lot of this season . |
| 28 | He gave a hard smile , and said , ‘ The only one that I knew could fulfil my ambition to be a multimillionaire before I was thirty . ’ |
| 29 | Her eyes filled with tears , but she made no attempt to blink them away , too caught up in an internal struggle which she knew could determine her life forever after . |
| 30 | I found myself wondering anxiously whether anyone we knew could overhear us . |