Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I used Arches hot-pressed paper I could also lift the pigment off with a brush if the colour was too heavy . |
| 2 | Where I could also spend a great deal of time talking about our common enemies , our mutual friends and some of the similarity and our aims for world peace and again , I 'm gon na leave that for the statesmen and the politicians . |
| 3 | From there I could see the other islands , and I could also see a boat , far out to sea . |
| 4 | I could also see the colour of paint I was using due to the pearly-white bristles . |
| 5 | I could also see the rock that Neil had pointed out to me , still half out of water . |
| 6 | I could also see the potential that Llanbrynmair had to offer ( it took Carole a little longer to see te potential ) and was very eager to start renovation . |
| 7 | I could also see the spire of the Church of Scotland in Porteneil , and some smoke coming up from the town chimneys . |
| 8 | So this song sort of sprang to mind and I could hear it as I wanted it to be and I could also hear a few little modifications that would suit their purposes , too . |
| 9 | In March , I had a week of sustained psychological warfare with a heron : it would hunch on the garage roof as I left for work , and I could well imagine the thoughts of piscicide running through its reptilian brain . |
| 10 | However , as I steered our motor dory into the tricky south landing with the tide pouring through jagged rocks , intermittently obscured by swell and sea tangle , I could well imagine the island 's isolation in winter and bad weather . |
| 11 | ‘ Even while I was speaking I realised I could well turn the tables with that . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 13 | To calculate the net present value one takes into account claims frequency , average claim , growth of premiums and so on , so if I added business that generated far more claims , I could easily reduce the value of the company . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If I wanted , I could easily provide a sibling for Emily without all the bother of getting married . ’ |
| 15 | I became really depressed because no matter how much I loved my children or tried to take care of them , I could neither keep the doctor at bay or the fungus that was destroying everything that it came into contact with . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've no objection which part of it you want to explore , but I could strongly recommend the bedroom . |
| 17 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 18 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 19 | By the time I had packed the things from the wardrobe and stuffed her toilet things on the top I could barely shut the case . |
| 20 | I could barely boil an egg . |
| 21 | ‘ I could even pay the dowry . ’ |
| 22 | And I could even make an educated guess what that might be . ’ |
| 23 | As zero hour was reached , and punctually to the very minute our barrage lifted , through my glasses I could clearly observe our skirmishers leave their trenches and move steadily forward ; here and there I could even distinguish the smoke puffs of bursting bombs . |
| 24 | I could even play the lead role . ’ |
| 25 | I could even put a tag on a few customers . |
| 26 | I do n't know if I could even get a job as a junior salesman . |
| 27 | I could even imagine a frying pan leaping into the fire . |
| 28 | Subject : I could even support the scum now ! |
| 29 | I could cheerfully cut the legs from her , but I 'll always love her . |
| 30 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |