Example sentences of "who could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigerian-born John Salako came up through the Palace 's Junior ranks as a pacy winger who could also score goals but , since The Eagles ' last return to the 1st Division , John has shown himself' capable of fulfilling other roles , by performing splendidly at left-back in the latter stages of the 1989–90 season , notably in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool and in the Wembley Finals . |
| 2 | He gruffly shoved me out of line , too busy to fool with a silly kid who could barely understand English . |
| 3 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 4 | That 's why the new podiatry surgery centre at Burghill near Hereford is seen as a success ; it 'll handle around a thousand patients a year , patients who could otherwise spend years on the waiting list . |
| 5 | Young men who could easily find work in the East Anglian villages during the peak periods of the farming year — haysel and corn harvest — were dismissed by farmers after the harvest , and often spent the whole winter hanging about without work and without any form of subsistence except the parish or the charity of their family . |
| 6 | This came both from abroad and from borrowers at home , who could easily obtain credit from the banking system which was flooded with foreign cash . |
| 7 | On the other hand the open villages , because they attracted the surplus labour force , contained workers on depressed wages who could ill afford rents which would make housing improvements profitable . |
| 8 | It is only to be expected that there are not too many IT experts around who could effectively advise policy makers and managers , and design IT systems . |
| 9 | Her father was on the brink of alcoholism , a pathetic figure who could only face life if he had a bottle in his hand . |
| 10 | Nothing but a beast , dumb and rude and mute and savage , she called him under her breath ; a man who could only talk men 's talk , who had none of the graces a nobleman would have , but of course Tommaso Talvi would never make a nobleman . |
| 11 | The former England midfielder capitalised on a blunder by City defender Keith Curle , who could only nod Steve Hodge 's cross out to him — and he promptly half-volleyed a magnificent swerving shot into the back of the City net . |
| 12 | In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods . |
| 13 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 14 | Jimmy Greaves , a goal scorer who could never match Charlie 's quixotic skills , paid a fond farewell to the departing Scot . |
| 15 | Pennsylvanian Nick de Paul will be forever known as the man who could always catch Severiano Ballesteros out . |
| 16 | He called for a referendum on the limitation of French citizenship to Europeans and those of French blood ( as opposed to those born on French territory , who could currently claim citizenship at 18 ) . |
| 17 | THE ONLY man who could actually get Deirdre nicked off him . |