Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahm so I 'm going to see if I could set up a baby sitting circle or something like that . |
| 2 | I could pass on a message for you . ’ |
| 3 | Who did I think I was imagining glibly that I could bring up a child all by myself ? |
| 4 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |
| 5 | He was emerging in stately fashion from Wavebreaker 's companionway and , though I could see he was tall and lanky and had a ponytail of hair , I could make out no details of his face . |
| 6 | I could make out a couple of dozen large buildings . |
| 7 | I could make out a younger Conchis in the centre , wearing a straw hat and shorts , and there was one woman , a peasant-woman , though not Maria , because she was Maria 's age in the photo and it was plainly twenty or thirty years old . |
| 8 | I could make out a sort of close-fitting purple cap on the back of her head . |
| 9 | A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road . |
| 10 | Most of it was double-dutch to me but I could make out the names entered in columns . |
| 11 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |
| 12 | But as far as I could make out the Ambassador was away . |
| 13 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 14 | After a couple of hundred yards the jungle thinned , and I could make out the towering white cliffs of the apartments building . |
| 15 | I could make out the tracery of blonde down on the edge of her cheek . |
| 16 | For , if I am the world ’ — we were heading down again , his nails digging into my flesh , I could make out the Eastern Mediterranean — ‘ then the world must be real . |
| 17 | The windows were obscured by curtains , but if I strained my eyes I thought I could make out the shadow of a figure standing behind them , never moving . |
| 18 | I could make out the Headmaster 's fancy brick chimneys , three shaped like corkscrews , three with brick diamond patterns , also the black branches of the elm tree shining wetly in the light of a precinct lamp-post . |
| 19 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 20 | And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars . |
| 21 | I could make out the spot where my dad had stood that night . |
| 22 | From the front window I saw Jo climb into the BMW and as the interior light went on , I could make out the shape of the man driving . |
| 23 | ‘ I could send in a fake mailing shot . |
| 24 | I remember that it could whack a fist-sized stone well over the creek and twenty metres or more into the undulating ground on the mainland , and once I got keyed into its natural rhythm I could send off a shot every two seconds . |
| 25 | I have often missed him , often felt that if only I could talk over a particular problem with him he would help me to see the way . |
| 26 | As long as mum is alive and as long as I 'm able to look after her , there 's no way I could hold down a job . |
| 27 | Mr Cartwright told Granpa that with my head for figures I could end up an accountant or a clerk . |
| 28 | I managed to wriggle my hands out of the tape so I could pull down the gag , poke my head out of the sack and breathe more freely . |
| 29 | I feel I could pull off the cruelly applied latex prosthetics and find there one of those untroubled faces from the frontispiece of Country Life or Tatler . |
| 30 | Sometimes I could stave off an attack by taking two every four hours . |