Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If his luck held , nothing could prevent him using it . |
| 2 | Finally , if felling is the answer , then do make sure that your tree is not protected by a Tree Preservation Order , which could prevent you cutting it down . |
| 3 | Resolutely she kept her eyes from Travis , although she could sense his watching her . |
| 4 | Fran sat down , keeping her eyes lowered so that she would n't have to meet Luke 's eyes across the table , but she could feel him watching her . |
| 5 | I could feel it pulling me in , but I wanted to remain a bachelor . |
| 6 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 7 | I could understand them refusing you if they 'd asked for say , a B in english and C in something else |
| 8 | It was unlike any kiss that she could remember him giving her before . |
| 9 | He could remember them discussing it over the ironing and himself on the floor playing with his soldiers behind the sofa and keeping very quiet about it because it was way past his bedtime . |
| 10 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 11 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 12 | I could see them disbelieving me . ’ |
| 13 | so we made each what was the dining room they 've made into a bedroom , but just do n't that he , cos you could see them doing it . |
| 14 | I could see meself doing it for years , like . |
| 15 | I know I could see you writing them anyway . |
| 16 | She could wait for him — no one could stop her marrying him once she was twenty-one . |
| 17 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 18 | You know you could hear you could hear them shouting you know goodnight and things like that . |
| 19 | I could hear her thinking it then |
| 20 | I could hear her scolding him for not having contacted her sooner , not having brought me to see her , asking whether I was safe , was someone with me , who was looking after me . |
| 21 | She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it . |
| 22 | You could hear him doing it . |
| 23 | And the fire brigade was coming along the road , we could hear it coming you know . |
| 24 | I realised I could race them keeping them and me fit . |
| 25 | Er just that little bit th that you felt , that I was n't , er you could imagine her doing it , you know . |
| 26 | Well I mean you could imagine them loving it ! |
| 27 | She could imagine herself mentioning it to her mother — ‘ Oh , yes , Mum ; that Luke Hunter man is one of the shop 's best customers . |