Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [conj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sit behind the wheel of the Calibra and it could easily be mistaken for a Cavalier GSi . |
| 2 | Wexford was n't inclined to be sentimental over the Cullams but he could n't help being faintly touched that they who were poor in everything had been affluent , extravagant and imaginative in one respect . |
| 3 | The generous niece even booked the couple a £200-a-night room at The Dorchester so they could enjoy the show at the famous London Palladium . |
| 4 | You see what you could do , is you could go on the Friday and I could pick you up Saturday evening . |
| 5 | The station commander , a well-known Battle of Britain type , suggested that he had wasted more animo on the Luftwaffe that he could have kept for such an occasion as ours . |
| 6 | All over Europe sailors had been accustomed to drawing a meridian through a point in their own country or through the furthest point to the west out in the Atlantic that they could determine with any certainty , and English sailors had usually taken their fixed meridian from a point west of the Lizard ( the last promontory of land they could see as they left the English Channel ) . |
| 7 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 8 | Go into Printemps in Paris , Rinascente in Milan , de Bijenkorf in Amsterdam , or the KaDeWe and you could be in any of the others . |
| 9 | He told the Commons that he could not force the generators to sign a deal in advance of the white paper . |
| 10 | Now , we never missed Big Bill 's programme on the BBC if we could help it — it was just so tuneful . |
| 11 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 12 | And the Scottish Highlands may be the only remaining region in the UK where we could find it . |
| 13 | Room service was strictly not available , yet one did n't disoblige the Lorrimores if one could help it . |
| 14 | It was reported in October 1989 that the Justice Department had advised the FBI that it could legally arrest fugitives in foreign countries without the consent of those countries and whether or not those arrested were US citizens . |
| 15 | He could n't start on his plane because there were n't any helpful books and now Mr Crangle was probably going to catch the Bookman before he could make friends with him . |
| 16 | BA is keeping its distance from attempts by Stephen Wolf and Jay Pritzker to revive the bidding consortium , but there are still hopes in the US that it could be persuaded to step in at the last minute to add weight to a new bid . |
| 17 | It is chiefly remembered by the SAS because they could swim in ‘ Cleopatra 's Pool ’ , a large basin supplied by a spring . |
| 18 | This can be either scanned into the Macintosh or it could be an already created MacPaint format drawing . |
| 19 | ‘ I do think visitors to this country like to know they 're in Scotland , especially in a large hotel like the Sheraton where you could be anywhere . ’ |
| 20 | I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people . |
| 21 | He never expressed any special wish to own a Mercedes until he could afford one : then he had to have it , and it had to be bright red . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , do you think you could skip a Saturday and I could pick you up somewhere , then we could take a run out into the country , across into Northumberland , beyond Hexham way ; it 's wild and wonderful up there . |
| 23 | ‘ The only car apart from a Rolls-Royce that he could fit into was an extra large Range Rover , ’ says the driver , who also tells hair-raising tales of ferrying Maxwell about town . |