Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And most were convinced that if there was any one person who could testify to what the pop goddess looked like on waking up , it would be Jason . |
| 2 | We walked up to the fall and what would I not give if I could convey to you the images and feelings which were then communicated to me . |
| 3 | The more frankly we could discuss with them the better . ’ |
| 4 | If he held his hand over a flowering plant , he could sense in himself the healing properties of that flower . |
| 5 | He said that he too had lost an election ; he had felt very bad when the people of new York rejected him , and he could empathize with what the Shah now felt . |
| 6 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |
| 7 | ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse . |
| 8 | You do n't , that 's why I asked whether Richard could join your committee so that he could voice to you the things he tried to explain to me which I think are |
| 9 | The Picts could see for themselves the benefits and in doing so , the Romans hoped , would cease their war-like activities and come to heel . |
| 10 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
| 11 | I believe that , that that procedure could apply to you the same as it can to Roger and Terry |
| 12 | In the former , all of X , Y , and Z are shown — the relationships between their changes are illustrated and one could estimate from it the ways in which the various terms in the equations are bringing about the changes . |
| 13 | It could lead to what the theologians have called ‘ Modalism ’ , as though God disclosed himself in these three successive modes or forms — forms which do not correspond to any differences in his own nature , but are merely adopted for our benefit . |
| 14 | And he could put from him the treacherous suspicion that their first meeting had been contrived , part of a plan devised by her and Pascoe to exploit his influence with Hilary . |
| 15 | Well he looks like we could play at ours the day before and can borrow Doug 's |
| 16 | I could talk to you the way I could n't talk to anyone else . |