Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | He therefore decreed that before either could reproduce they must fight to the death , with the flesh from the loser being fed to deserving men . |
2 | ‘ Very much , ’ she replied , but she somehow still felt upset that he could think she would go behind his back and cross-examine his secretary . |
3 | Hurt that he could think she would do that pest of an interview through Lubor , she was certain then that she did n't even like Ven Gajdusek — much less was she attracted to him ! |
4 | They could discuss which would get cold most quickly , which would stay hottest longest and why . |
5 | If I could speak I would have said , ‘ Elizabeth , Elizabeth , go back into the shadows , get out of the light , hide your shining face in the shadows . ’ |
6 | If a wet stone could smell it would smell like this . |
7 | Well if I could choose I would go to bed at about two o'clock in the morning and get up at about ten o'clock in the morning . |
8 | what , what I could do I shall put these on and see what it at , starts and quickly put |
9 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
10 | S you could do you could do a hexagon this way actually draw a hexagon . |
11 | As a chemist , is there anything that you would really like to know , something you 'd really like to discover , something that if you knew you could feel you could do a whole lot more chemistry ? |
12 | For all Wexford knew or could remember there might have been a bank robbery in that city at that time . |
13 | Christina was already thinking about who she could ring who could contact Stephen . |
14 | I wonder if you could like anybody would like to elaborate on that ? |
15 | It was a big relief because everyone could see we should have won it . ’ |
16 | Mum flopped down in her chair and did n't say a word but by her look I could see I would suffer for it later . |
17 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
18 | In another few months Nahum could see he would have to resign his Governorship , if only to save the expense of his weekly journeys by train . |
19 | When he could see he would get nothing out of Dad , the visitor continued . |
20 | then you could see he 'd patch into all these different bloody things and |
21 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
22 | Well , if the norm in the Church was the Bishop and Miss Tilley , you could see she 'd have a fair amount of concealing to do . |
23 | I wish I could believe he 'd come by it honestly , driving his lorry up and down the Great North Road . ’ |
24 | And they 'd be talking , now you could bet they could get somebody interested in that shop on , on politics or trade unionism , they 'd get one in that shop . |
25 | Twelve times integral of X squared D X well if we 'd have started off with X squared we 'd could have we would have if we 've started off with X cubed we would have finished up with three X cubed |
26 | They could have they could have even faxed it . |
27 | It could have it could have some more shopping , it could have another primary school , it could have a rail link , or some other public transport link . |
28 | You could have you could have open land within within a village , it does n't necessarily mean it 's open countryside . |
29 | You could have you could have made it work . |
30 | Well I mean you could have you could have one in here . |