Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 2 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 3 | ‘ Just think , ’ he told her , ‘ you could treat yourself to a trip down Bond Street and splurge on a few trinkets and some new clothes for your wardrobe . ’ |
| 4 | She fixed her hazel eyes on his and elaborated , smiling , ‘ You could treat yourself to a few trinkets with the change . ’ |
| 5 | Well , in some countries this might be the only opportunity learners get to hear extensive chunks of the language , so you could treat it as a " language bath " session and concentrate on helping your learners come away with a general idea of the content . |
| 6 | If the deceased was prone to depression , the court could treat it as an example of the egg shell skull rule . |
| 7 | I 'm not sure sure how we could build it into the criteria of But it 's it 's a point which would obviously have to be borne in mind in terms of the str you know , the planning process . |
| 8 | I mean you could be laying in bed , which are downstairs , and someone could throw summat through a window . |
| 9 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 10 | A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy . |
| 11 | but even then we could have consignment stock here in effect cos they 're only forty minutes away , we could throw 'em in the back of the car and have 'em delivered . |
| 12 | ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae . |
| 13 | ‘ You could throw someone off the Stoney Creek bridge — that 's a high curved bridge over Roger 's Pass . |
| 14 | I do n't like to blow my own trumpet but My Better Half could eat it to a band playing . |
| 15 | The treatment can offset some effects of menopause , including brittle bone disease — osteoporosis — but the study reveals that the wrong kind of HRT could expose them to the risk of womb cancer . |
| 16 | Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again . |
| 17 | His opening 76 in reality had been his practice round because of his late arrival , and he could make nothing of the greens in his outward 36 yesterday , starting at the tenth . |
| 18 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 19 | Because every time someone screws they could make something with a will to live . |
| 20 | I saw a couple of people with TV cameras ; Tony had persuaded some cameramen to film the Benefit for free so he could make it into a video afterwards . |
| 21 | Or you could make it into a picture for a baby or toddler to hang on their bedroom wall . |
| 22 | It would only take a couple of houses to be knocked down and they could make it into a dual carriage way . |
| 23 | Or I could make it into a puppet . |
| 24 | She was Labour , she said , but was n't sure she could make it to the polls . |
| 25 | ‘ You could make it to the end now , and I 'll tell old Sam you 've done a length . ’ |
| 26 | With fifteen laps to go , the race was his : if he could make it to the end . |
| 27 | She sincerely hoped that she could make it to the track before any car came because she knew exactly what a mess she looked . |
| 28 | Leonora watched him go with mixed feelings , not really sure she could make it to the bathroom alone , despite her fine words . |
| 29 | If we could make it through the torrent to the bend ahead … |
| 30 | ‘ That was when I knew he could make it in the bigtime , ’ he says . |