Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The M forty not running too badly at the moment , although between junction two and junction seven there are a fair few roadworks which could hold you up throughout your journey . |
| 2 | Or maybe he knew that the Mob had files of their own , that Meyer Lansky , the one-time bootlegger and now the gambling mogul , had pictures which could ruin him : Edgar and Clyde , for once unambiguously tangled . |
| 3 | These higher-order shaikhs had no power to intervene in the affairs of component lineages , although again , as senior and widely connected men , they had other roles which could entitle them to express an opinion . |
| 4 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |
| 5 | Below are some guidelines you could give them for using video on their own . |
| 6 | They sometimes had secretaries who could imitate their master 's hand so perfectly that it is difficult to tell one from t' other . |
| 7 | Long after he should have turned away out of politeness she could feel his dark glance pricking all over her , sparing nothing . |
| 8 | By taking six simple steps you could make your home snug fur half the price . |
| 9 | He further argues that Derrida 's fundamental claim that speech is really writing , and that writing is prior to speech , is based on a redefinition of terms , and that by such methods one could prove anything , that the rich are really poor , that the true is really false , and so on . |
| 10 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 11 | Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets . |
| 12 | Perhaps I was showing too many teeth which could make me appear roguish and untrustworthy . |
| 13 | If he does sport independently , he has to concentrate on maintaining control over any associated reactions which could knock him off balance as he makes a physical effort . |
| 14 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |
| 15 | ‘ So they are bitter about proposals which could leave them without a future . |
| 16 | From my experiences in the Occupied Countries I could tell she was starved . |
| 17 | By leaning her back against it and pedalling with her feet she could move it forwards inches at a time . |
| 18 | There 's nobody in this room who could n't win a sprint race against a sumo wrestler now , without any practice , even in stockinged feet you could do it . |
| 19 | This must be done by people on all levels involved in health-care , including the insurance companies who could save themselves a fortune in claims . |
| 20 | Under the gruff tones she could feel his sympathy for her at being placed in such an awkward situation , and she made an effort to summon up some anger at his being sorry for her , but she could n't . |
| 21 | From the precise speed of his movements she could tell he was in a hurry . |
| 22 | That could cause difficulties and if such an inhibition operated which did not apply to other bus companies it could make it difficult for management-employee buy-out teams to raise funds . |
| 23 | In some areas he could plant his land with windmills . |
| 24 | There have been many disasters along the road , Yorkshire puddings you could sole your shoes with , burnt offerings of several varieties , a pat that even my dog would n't eat and last Christmas a chocolate log that disintegrated , the proud little Santa on top sinking without trace in a sea of chocolate gunge . |
| 25 | At times she could imagine she was in an adjoining room at Jackdaw Cottage , eavesdropping on what they said . |
| 26 | Angelica loved the valley people — some of them , anyway but at times she could find them … well , basic more or less summarised the idea . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 28 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 29 | An occupational therapist from the social services department may be able to tell you about aids which could help you . |
| 30 | ‘ I started training modest horses and in those days you could make it pay by running them in selling races . ’ |