Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exclusive " Annie Thompson " design had only a small flap — that was adequate in normal circumstances — but near disaster in an emergency , when I could not even resort to the era of the " Flapper " in her cami-knickers , and go down one leg . |
| 2 | I could not even bayonet an effigy of Kaiser Bill convincingly . |
| 3 | The first phases of the campaign were exclusively naval operations , since it had been assumed by the British War Cabinet and the French that a naval force could not only bombard and destroy the Turkish forts on the peninsula but in some way occupy Constantinople . |
| 4 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |
| 5 | You could n't possibly part with him , there 'll never be another animal like him , and when your pony goes , there goes your childhood . |
| 6 | I realised I could no longer pussyfoot around ! |
| 7 | If I could no longer eidetik effectively , had my status as apprentice and licentiate of the Brahmin of the Banal been removed at one fell stroke ? |
| 8 | He says he completely failed to understand the Palestinian revolution ( p. 3 ) , that he could never completely identity with the nation or their movement ( p. 90 ) , that he participated for fun ( p. 9 ) , that his record of what happened is inaccurate ( p. 19 ) , that writing itself is a lie ( p. 27 ) and memory unreliable ( p. 39 ) . |