Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , when Law left the government in 1921 , Frances Stevenson noted in her diary that Lloyd George had " lost an ideal companion with whom he could laugh and joke and enjoy himself " . |
| 2 | As Debbie observed , she could eat and eat and not worry about getting fat . |
| 3 | A drastic measure considering electromagnetic pollution has , as yet , taken only a handful of lives , but compliance with a new European Directive could make or break and electronics company . |
| 4 | I could swim and run and walk and fight . |
| 5 | Failing miserably , she found herself sliding sideways , and there was nothing she could do but laugh as she hit the field quite hard and bike landed on top of her . |
| 6 | He could run and jump and climb much better in bare feet , and he could do it all without making a sound . |
| 7 | When Master let him out , he could run and run and feel the wind in his ears and the earth under his feet . |
| 8 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
| 9 | He rummaged under the counter and produced a colour chart , and , shoving the display-case of cakes to one side he flattened it out so that everyone could see and comment as they saw fit . |
| 10 | ‘ They were about the only way people could see and hear and know about things outside the scope of their own town . |
| 11 | A soviet ( or governing council ) representing each of the twelve nahijes ( districts ) within the pashalik was established , but its powers were vaguely defined and it became an instrument which Karadjordje could use or ignore as he felt fit . |
| 12 | As in war , you could use them as a screen behind which your knights could withdraw and wait until they were ready to charge . |
| 13 | Then , before she could decide whether to retreat and wait for the Empress to leave , a man murmured softly . |
| 14 | The band put an easy beat through every tune , you could waltz or smooch or shuffle . |
| 15 | Now if I could try and translate that into your particular sphere of interest , you are doing things with noise , with food , with roofs I heard the other day , yesterday , which surprised me , and a variety of other things , which people understand . |
| 16 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 17 | It could happen that nailing and uncovering the cause would begin the progress of the cure . |
| 18 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 19 | ‘ He could read and write before he went to school . |
| 20 | From the time they could read and write and understand , Stepan Holovich and Ilya , who was to become his wife , had known of the battle . |
| 21 | Charles the Cheesemonger had signed his marriage certificate with a cross — a common enough occurrence , in the event , even among those who could read and write if they put their minds to it . |
| 22 | We could walk and go and ma put down . |
| 23 | The baths provided warm rooms in winter , as in the large , moderately heated room ( the tepidarium ) , and cool , shady gardens in summer , where strollers could walk or sit and relax under the roofed peristyles which surrounded the open courts . |
| 24 | Yeah d' ya know I could drink and drink and drink you know there only you get all the fingers caught , it 's like with an ironing board int it ? |
| 25 | I could , I could go and I could go and take if there 's , you know , if they have n't , no nothing awful 's to them I could go and take some pics of those . |
| 26 | We could go and see that picture we missed tonight . ’ |
| 27 | he , he ca n't stand and dither , he moves around a lot and does n't think if only he could stand and dither and think |
| 28 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 29 | ‘ I think I could serve and clean and so on . |
| 30 | They forgot briefly that they were having a fight ; instead they had a happy half-hour of fantasy about what books they could write and read and live with . |