Example sentences of "could [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I could n't countenance how you could stay under water without being asphyxiated , and yet at the same time I was incapable of comprehending the trick . |
| 2 | Clearly much would depend on whether Knott could stay with Greig but , after nightwatchman Underwood went , Knott and Snow both followed quickly , all dismissed by Daniel inside four overs . |
| 3 | These Sherlocks could stay at home and save the tax payers some money . |
| 4 | If I did n't go I could stay at home and work on the house . |
| 5 | I could stay at home and try to write a novel . |
| 6 | Perhaps next month Esquire could stay at home and have a wank . |
| 7 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 8 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 9 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 10 | Mind , I welcomed them with open arms because it meant I could stay off school . |
| 11 | Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey . |
| 12 | It was hoped that a small part of those works could stay in operation , renovating locomotives and rolling stock and that eventually a heritage museum could be set up on the site . |
| 13 | Well you could stay in bed all day on Friday . |
| 14 | Of course , well you could stay in bed all day on Friday And I could take the kids to schools and go back |
| 15 | I saw Ace becoming the toast of the kings and queens of Europe , having an audience with the Pope , shaking hands with Gorbachev ; but he , for once , was more modest : ‘ I 'd like to hook up with Jacques Cousteau — we could stay in tune with the global weather patterns . ’ |
| 16 | He could stay in Formula Ford for another year , or possibly move up to Vauxhall Lotus . |
| 17 | In recent years the press has had to challenge such diverse rulings as an order not to name a witness from a famous family lest publicity might interfere with her care for heroin addiction ; an order not to publish the address of a former Tory MP lest his estranged wife should discover his whereabouts and harass him , and an order that reporters should leave the court so that a distressed defendant could explain in privacy the matrimonial problems which drove her to drink before she drove her car . |
| 18 | However , if imperialism is a consequence of capitalist expansionism and not simply a colonial system of government , then some form of economic neo-imperialism could persist after independence for ex-colonies ( see Abel and Lewis , 1985 ) . |
| 19 | Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long . |
| 20 | The judge decided that the defendant was within that definition and could remain in possession . |
| 21 | By taking a particular view of the elements , Bacon even set out to show that human bodies could remain in hellfire for eternity . |
| 22 | There are many such instances where secrecy was maintained so that the leader or members of his entourage could remain in office , irrespective of potential or actual damage to government . |
| 23 | It was doubtful whether Schluter could remain in control but two emotional anniversaries during the campaign helped to keep defence as the issue : April 9 was the anniversary of the German invasion and occupation of Denmark in the Second World War , and May 9 the anniversary of the Liberation . |
| 24 | He was sitting with Mick at the top of a hill and he was wishing with a deep desire that he could remain in time , this present time , forever . |
| 25 | Having predicted that Lewis could rule as world champion for some time , Foreman was asked whether he would like to fight him . |
| 26 | For them , Japan was a magnet , promising them wages many times what they could earn at home , but according to one Pakistani worker who yesterday decided to speak out publicly , the reality was very different . |
| 27 | Documents published by BNFL state that the plant will earn £950 million for the UK and £1,800 million for BNFL in its first 10 years , but contain no comparison of the cost of reprocessing with that of storage of nuclear waste , or any assessment of the revenue BNFL could earn from storage of its customers ' waste . |
| 28 | No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law . |
| 29 | Unfettered by the Likud , a Labour government could stride towards peace — but on the slenderest of parliamentary mandates . |
| 30 | He asked that she be given six months ' grace at Althorp so she could adapt to life without him . |