Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I could n't day in any other way — things that I had no words for . |
| 2 | I could n't caddie for him because I was with the central-heating men . |
| 3 | the water stood so clear I could not gauge |
| 4 | Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag . |
| 5 | In the hills above the ruins of Capernaum near the Mount of Beatitudes we stopped at a natural grassy amphitheatre which could easily seat 10,000 . |
| 6 | BERNHARD Langer stands between Ulster 's David Feherty and the victory which could spectacularly catapult him into the Ryder Cup . |
| 7 | BERNHARD Langer stands between Ulster 's David Feherty and the victory which could spectacularly catapult him into the Ryder Cup . |
| 8 | But she could not distance herself from her friend 's tragedy . |
| 9 | and she er she could n't sort of feel guilty about it |
| 10 | and the other one was erm a mother of two and she said that even when she was younger she was always overweight and she could never sort of go out with anybody nice and she just settled for anybody sort of thing , I felt sorry for her husband , mind you saying this like , cos he looked a bit thick and er |
| 11 | Since it was Dane 's name on the hoardings which had sold out the theatre on opening night and for several weeks to come , Josh 's kindness brought a painful lump to her throat , and she could only gaze at him in mute gratitude . |
| 12 | For a second she could only gaze at him , completely at a loss . |
| 13 | Hawkwind used to outrage the establishment by having a hippychick stripper onstage ; today they have a more wimmin-friendly dayglo dancer who could n't outrage a paper bag , let alone dance his way out of one . |
| 14 | But they had no-one to explain the uses of what they learned and knowledge of itself could easily overbalance a carefully structured society . |
| 15 | I mean if you were being really dangerous and you wanted to die soon you could just sort of get a piece of bare wire and |
| 16 | You could just sort of tuck it in here under her waistband . |
| 17 | But , you know you could just George . |
| 18 | It seemed to me that you could not edge in a word ! ’ retorted Theda . |
| 19 | You could n't beard the lion in his den if you let your fears get the best of you . |
| 20 | understand the meaning behind the sentence but you could n't word for word . |
| 21 | There was four routes there now and we had as many as ten buses operating those four , so it meant they were left , you could n't sort of segregate them . |
| 22 | books , and you could n't sort of swop the |
| 23 | Yeah you could n't sort of get at any where near him to start with . |
| 24 | The thing is , you ca n't really , you could n't sort of see this jagged mess . |
| 25 | You could , you could seat if you did , sort of classroom seating in there a , room this size in that , er , you could , you could probably seat six hundred people . |
| 26 | During the next 60 seconds it will induce feelings of warmth.You will feel as if you have everything you could possibly want.Let these feelings fill your whole consciousness.These effects are n't permanent . |
| 27 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 28 | you could actually sort of talk about , right a full time centre is ten half day sessions , two full time centre equals twenty half day sessions |
| 29 | We could n't outdistance Siward . |
| 30 | We could always farm things out to freelances . |