Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the South Midlands and a few other areas where farm labourers could earn only a pittance crafts that employed mothers and daughters provided welcome extra income . |
| 2 | A centre could devise eg. a ‘ student centred ’ assessment system where each learner is responsible for collecting evidence of his/her achievement and judging his/her own performance against the criteria . |
| 3 | She could make just a small detour … |
| 4 | ‘ They say , ’ Eloise went on , ‘ that the value of the Russian works of art could make quite a difference to the total outcome , after taxes . |
| 5 | So you know that , that as you know Richard said you know good idea , could make quite a few people , so I think Marcus , if , if Marcus chose that moment he , he really |
| 6 | Game and Games — you might get the impression that this is a shop where you could buy either a brace of grouse or a set of Monopoly . |
| 7 | If death could steal away a daughter , why not a son as well ? |
| 8 | These olives — their trunks warped , gouged , carbuncled , abrasive to the touch — seem indestructible , as if they could survive even a nuclear winter . |
| 9 | Soutine could speak hardly a word of French . |
| 10 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 11 | However , some natives at this time became unreliable guides and could give away a patrol 's position . |
| 12 | CAUTION — make sure you get the ball and not the player , or you could give away a free kick ! |
| 13 | It 's hoped the building and ten acres of land could fetch over a million pounds so the creditors can be paid off . |
| 14 | It 's hoped the building and ten acres of land could fetch over a million pounds so the creditors can be paid off . |
| 15 | In fact you could bring quite a bit of it in and put it in the fridge . |
| 16 | We could do nearly a quarter on a night . |
| 17 | I mean you 've got quite a lot of movement in there and , and you could do quite a bit for him . |
| 18 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 19 | Properly targeted , together with training incentives , the Chancellor could do quite a lot at not a huge cost . |
| 20 | Well I do n't think it would give a burnt taste but I think , I think it probably could do quite a lot of good for it . |
| 21 | Myra greeted her with suppressed excitement and Claudia wished she could feel even a little of the same anticipation . |
| 22 | She could feel only a few twigs . |
| 23 | It was an enormous moment , this good-bye to the old home ; so enormous she could hardly grasp it , could feel only a vague regret . |
| 24 | But no amount of determination could wipe away a strong feeling of apprehension . |
| 25 | When he thought back over it , as he lay on the bunk and water drips splattered every eleven seconds between his ankles , he could remember only a film of excitement that had wrapped him . |
| 26 | Now , the coal crisis is so acute that steam locos on the mountain could become just a memory unless the present oil firing experiments at Snowdon are a success . |
| 27 | All too easily Soho could become less a way of life than an unbreakable habit . |
| 28 | Lisa had had this feeling before , that he could predict her behaviour , that he could see just a little too clearly inside her head . |
| 29 | well I thought if I could see just a little bit of er |
| 30 | They were glazed with ribbed glass , you could see quite a lot of them on Chipping Field , still , er and nearly everyone who 's bought their houses have altered the doors , but a lot of people have put these wooden doors in you know |