Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty of them made the trip to Gulfstream Park and the best they could manage was one Irish and one French third place , both well beaten . |
| 2 | They gave Ken the best reviews he had had to date — and the best he could possibly wish for . |
| 3 | It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head . |
| 4 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |
| 5 | All the foreign teams are in the mountain trial and the 80 who could not make the main event are in an overflow , starting 0631 hours ! |
| 6 | Men , he said , used to approach the nest 60 yards down on a rope , and holding a piked stick in one hand to protect themselves from the parent birds ’ attacks , with the other hand seize the eggs or chicks , the latter was a valued object and the former they could sell for 5/ each . |
| 7 | Indeed , stretches of the system had considerable success , and between 1814 and the 1840's it could be said that the Grand Union justified itself . |
| 8 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 9 | One day he would say , ‘ Hello , Jim , how are you today ? ’ and the next you could say ‘ Hi , Frank , ’ and he 'd walk right by you . |