Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 2 | Before she could answer he grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her against him , his fingers biting cruelly into her skin . |
| 3 | Before she could answer he pulled her close again and any thoughts of answering fled as she gave herself up to the excitement . |
| 4 | I longed to prove you were unfaithful to him so I could make him throw you over — I felt like a monster with every ungenerous thought that flickered through my mind . |
| 5 | " Yet if I could make him notice me perhaps he might consider my suitability as a wife . |
| 6 | You could make them see it so clearly if only you 'd try . ’ |
| 7 | Whatever could make you think I wanted to silence Hilda Machin ? |
| 8 | That kind of damp , chill August day only Blighty can produce , a large , scrubby field , a bill that could make you weep it was so poor . |
| 9 | You know we could 've We limited They were limited to the intake , but we could have er increased I think . |
| 10 | I said that if she would leave it with the bill at her hall-porter 's desk , she could trust me to take it and leave the money without attempting to see her . |
| 11 | When she confessed to shooting Martin no one could doubt she had it in her to pull the trigger . |
| 12 | If his luck held , nothing could prevent him using it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Resolutely she kept her eyes from Travis , although she could sense his watching her . |
| 15 | Okay so what what who do you think we could send them to tell us what we want to know about them ? |
| 16 | ‘ Surely if it was thrown overboard there was no guarantee that it would finish up on shore where the Man could send someone to fetch it . |
| 17 | The battle now shifted to parliament , where the second reading was carried by a huge majority on 22 May ; many Unionists spoke against the Bill , but few could bring themselves to oppose it in principle , and so Sanders could mobilize only forty MPs to go with him into the No lobby . |
| 18 | If you could bring yourself to examine them , I would be grateful . ’ |
| 19 | I think I would love you more , if that were possible , if you could bring yourself to do it . |
| 20 | She had felt quite peculiar and quite , quite shocked ; how Lucinda could bring herself to do it was a complete mystery . |
| 21 | Through all of this there was a shadow falling across the conversation , and it was a while before Alina could bring herself to give it a name . |
| 22 | I wish I could do something to stop it but I 'm not going to deny it and you 'd be a liar if you tried . ’ |
| 23 | When the guerrillas appeared it could do nothing to stop them . |
| 24 | The baby saw it happening but could do nothing to stop it , its pudgy fingers would not close tightly enough to grasp the string … . |
| 25 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
| 26 | He could do nothing to persuade them to join him and they had left it too late . |
| 27 | And they could do nothing to save them . |
| 28 | We could do nothing to sort him out because we had decided not to do anything foolish . |
| 29 | She knew she was hysterical yet could do nothing to calm herself , could hear her own voice rising higher and higher , going on and on , and could do nothing to make it stop . |
| 30 | Pausing to watch the big man stride away , his broad shoulders bent as though beneath a great weight , Tilly despaired that she could do nothing to help him . |