Example sentences of "could probably " in BNC.
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1 | Actually , she could probably have married him and had a few nice babies with his laughing blue eyes , his loony hippy fluffy hair , and maybe her eyebrows . |
2 | The Ejner Handberg books are available from Stobart Davis , Priory House , Priory Street , Hertford SG14 1RN — and they could probably obtain other books on demand . |
3 | Each table has 12 which , with six fat legs , could probably hold the roof up but it is this very rigidity that makes the construction hard . |
4 | But the Chinese Constitution contains all sorts of promises , too — so many that it could probably have been construed to forbid the People 's Liberation Army from shooting dead hundreds of unarmed civilians , and to prohibit the arbitrary arrest , summary trial or execution of thousands more . |
5 | When Berg describes the Goldwyns moving house , moreover , to 1800 Camino Palmero or 1200 Laurel Lane , you could probably find your way round the properties blindfold on his description . |
6 | The Germans could probably see us now and had the jeep as a target . |
7 | We can play chess and I could probably correct your anti-materialist views on the coal industry in a matter of moments . ’ |
8 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
9 | In union negotiations , for example , I always found that if you had a heart to heart with the opposition , the single leader , you could probably gain something . |
10 | Thoughts fly to Tom — he could probably break in through plumbing outlet or shin gracefully up drainpipe . |
11 | The first they could probably do without , the second will probably fill the Lions with pride . |
12 | So Peter Yeo had to look reassuring and solid and a bit older , while Timothy Hutton could probably have come to work in striped organza without losing a single client . |
13 | A long and inconclusive stand-off in the Middle East , when oil prices could probably edge down from their recent $28-odd a barrel , would string out the recession but not deepen it greatly . |
14 | ‘ Well , dumbo , if we had a London street map and telephone directory , we could probably work out where she lives . |
15 | ‘ One is that , like I said , I could probably frame you for the kiosk and the burglary . |
16 | Even if she fell in , Gazzer told himself , she could probably swim her way out . |
17 | If they had a hook at the back you could probably tow the lawnmower about with you , too ! |
18 | You could probably become far more healthy by the simple expedient of ‘ going back in time ’ in terms of some of your daily activity . |
19 | North apparently devised , and the attorney general approved , a scheme to ransom two hostages for $2.2m in bribes ; extra hostages could probably be bribed free , North believed , for $1m each . |
20 | The witnesses immediately before him painted a picture of an elaborate liar , one whose testimony could probably not be trusted under oath , and of a petty thief who bought lingerie , so it appeared , with money meant for the contras ; some committee members considered him such a ‘ wacko ’ , in the patois , that his testimony would be next to useless . |
21 | He had some minor heart ailment , and then a kidney problem which could probably have been treated . |
22 | ‘ She paints the most beautiful watercolours , she sews , she knits , she makes a lot of her own clothes even though she could probably afford the entire shop which sells them . |
23 | If I stood up on the walkway , I thought , I could probably stretch up and touch the ceiling , but would n't be able to reach the hole . |
24 | If I could think straight , if every scrap of attention did n't have to be focused on not falling , I could probably get nearer to knowing . |
25 | Katya Surkov was living in Rostov ; Sergei could probably find her number in Victor 's address book . |
26 | I can see fields and reservoirs and a motorway service station , and , given the proper magnification , I could probably make out Parish Clerk Weekley still on his roof waiting for his next photocall . |
27 | What will the regular supporters of Manchester United and Leeds United think if either club are denied victory in the Championship because of the greed of some players who could probably have saved Aldershot from their creditors with money from their back pockets ? |
28 | Even today , most educated people could probably tell you something about Voltaire and Rousseau ; Candide and the Confessions still appear in popular editions , and are therefore read . |
29 | FTC could probably make the idea work without coverage of the 22 Premier League clubs or the European Cup mini-leagues , but it would be impossible to do so without the co-operation of the Football League clubs unloaded by the Premier League as , ironically , an impediment to their progress . |
30 | But they could probably learn something from the occupational pluralism practised by crofters as an adaption to living on agricultural holdings too small to be economically viable . |