Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood very close to me , leaning on the verandah railings , so that I could feel , or imagined I could feel , the warmth of her skin . |
| 2 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 3 | Looking at the terms of the agreement as contained in the letter from Hunter 's attorney , and the receipt , it is manifest that the payment was not made in discharge of the plaintiff 's rights against all other parties ; and the result of the whole is , that it does not operate as a release , or matter which could have been pleaded as an accord and satisfaction , but amounts merely to an engagement not to sue Hunter , which can only be pleaded by himself ; if the action , therefore , had been brought against two parties , it would not have been a discharge to both . |
| 4 | What was more they could not , or claimed they could not , pay taxes , direct or indirect , so that the king of France soon came to feel the impact on his fiscal policy of English raids into certain parts of his kingdom . |
| 5 | Or feel they could do it ? |
| 6 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
| 7 | ‘ Well , what Simon could or thought he could dispose of were the pictures . |
| 8 | Where changing something could make a difference , and seems unlikely to do harm , we should go ahead and do it . |
| 9 | If calligraphy is not a skill you possess or think you could learn , do not despair for there are some alternatives . |
| 10 | ‘ Is there a shower or bath I could use ? ’ |
| 11 | Things that upset them could be an uninvited intruder through the cat flap , a row with another cat , even the arrival of a new three-piece suite . |
| 12 | All the same , her protests went unheeded , and each day that passed she could see Matthew becoming more and more influenced by old Luther . |
| 13 | After all , the body contains more collagen than any other protein : it should be no surprise that protecting it could do a lot of good . |
| 14 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 15 | In almost anything that happened I could find guilt and apply it to myself . |
| 16 | As a result , Brunel could argue that killing off the quickie at the end of the decade was a mistake since it was possible to make ‘ really fine , unspectacular pictures ’ , and ‘ we were evolving a technique that showed what could be done when facing fearful odds . ’ |
| 17 | These two models were compared , leading to a third model that showed what could happen once the Act was implemented . |
| 18 | And after — what ? — fifteen , twenty years , there was that in her altered manner that showed she could still regard him with affection . |
| 19 | It says in this paper that last they could only |
| 20 | One exception , imaginatively titled ‘ Gulf War : The Board Game ’ , comes from a Malaysian company that discovered it could change an America v Russia contest into a Gulf version without rewriting any of the rules . |
| 21 | Horror stories abound : of the rogue 's law that prevented any port agent who sold directly to fishmongers from ever trading with a Billingsgate merchant again ; of the nepotism that determined who could have a stand in the market ; and of prices that varied according to who you were and whether you had a good introduction . |
| 22 | In the silence that followed I could hear the beer pumps hissing behind the bar at the back of the room . |
| 23 | Nothing that preceded it could have prepared its audience for a work of such comic brilliance , masterly characterization , and sheer breadth of conception . |
| 24 | I was that shocked I could n't he myself ! |
| 25 | They were once so poverty-stricken they were known through the valley of the Tees as people who ‘ christened calves , hoppled lops and knee-banded spiders ’ That meant they could afford so few cattle that each one had a name ( a tradition perpetuated by Hannah. ) , and lops ( lice ) and spiders had their legs tied together to prevent them running away |
| 26 | Anyway , that meant I could have a decent drink and trust to luck not to have to need a lift back . |
| 27 | Cos after all a coin was a , had a monetary value that meant you could go and buy something with it . |
| 28 | ‘ His pass was confiscated the next day and that meant he could n't get into the base to work and lost his job . |
| 29 | She knew for a fact that he had n't used a condom , so that meant he could n't get her pregnant . |
| 30 | Policies which no doubt David erm Allenby will explain later of Harrogate would suggest that Harrogate Borough is one in this county that feels it could accommodate a strategic site . |