Example sentences of "could [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could laugh at the absurdities of life and people that made no sense to those who had n't lived in Ireland . |
| 2 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
| 3 | He says that a person could stay at a hotel with his own doctor and nurse cheaper than that . |
| 4 | European banks could stay at the top for longer than their predecessors . |
| 5 | He could stay at the Palm Springs home of Walter Annenberg , newspaper publisher , millionaire , friend of the Shah 's friend Richard Nixon , former ambassador tot he court of St James , Sullivan was told to convey the invitation in the name of the president and to ask how many people would be travelling with the Shah . |
| 6 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |
| 7 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 8 | After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter . |
| 9 | Sequent was also told the NT client could ship at the end of May , simultaneous with system 's launch at Comdex Spring/Windows World . |
| 10 | Sequent was also told the NT client could ship at the end of this month , simultaneously with system 's launch at Comdex Spring/Windows World . |
| 11 | Ecology could exist at the research level even though it was at first difficult to introduce it into the universities and schools as an academic discipline . |
| 12 | Before Jos could knock at the door , it was opened by a tiny old woman bent at such an angle that she could not see them without straightening up , her head cocked to one enquiring side . |
| 13 | That 's right , that 's right , yes , how we consume these products , yes , I mean , you 're right , so a potato is a potato is a potato , but if it 's pre-packed , graded and washed , that is sort of intrinsically different from er , er , sort of , mouldy , scruffy old potatoes that you could buy at a greengrocer . |
| 14 | Even forgetting the fact that the Cobra was the fastest accelerating car you could buy at the time , that only puts it between the £21,620 Elan SE and the entry level £26,400 Excel SE , close to the £22,363 Morgan plus eight and even closer to the £23,526 Toyota Supra Turbo . |
| 15 | If you could n't afford the original records , there were smaller ones you could buy at the Woolworths in the King 's Road , which sounded quite like . |
| 16 | I could I could buy at the moment |
| 17 | The invisible powers of nature were analogous to the visible powers of the magnet , which could act at a distance and penetrate matter with its rays . |
| 18 | To get this charter , Ayr had to demonstrate that they could manufacture at a ‘ landed cost ’ competitive with other Digital plants , particularly those in the Far East . |
| 19 | Clearly individuals could survive at a low standard of physical efficiency and in housing which to those accustomed to greater comfort was grossly overcrowded and substandard . |
| 20 | ( c ) The matrix could yield at a strain lower than that required for fibril yield . |
| 21 | As we discussed at the meeting on May 17 1989 , it would be extremely helpful if you could look for places where captions carrying additional information could appear at the foot of the screen and write the caption . |
| 22 | After you have studied these papers , I would be pleased to know if you could appear at the public inquiry to present evidence in support of the Regional Council 's case and , in particular , on the supply and demand for office floor space in the Edinburgh area , and the poor marketability of Millerhill as a location for major office and class 4 business development . |
| 23 | She advanced to the desk she threw open the lid dramatically Mary-Lou drew in her breath and got away as far as she could looking at the inside of her desk with scared eyes |
| 24 | But these inconveniences can not be related to those which could result at a given moment from the capture by the enemy of three or four battalions , with a loss , by consequence , of several thousands of men . |
| 25 | There was little class consciousness in the European sense among the peasantry or urban workers in the nineteenth century , though occupational groups such as washermen , carters or fishermen could unite at the local level to protect their economic interests . |
| 26 | I discovered that with our video : we tape things we could watch at the time , just to prove , I suppose that video recorders are wonderful things . |
| 27 | It was a move from a concern with the intrinsic character of the student 's experience to an interest in what the student knew and could do at the end of the course . |
| 28 | ‘ There was n't a thing he could do at the time , but he 's got his eye on them . ’ |
| 29 | It 's analysis of the egos as , as we 've been seeing , in analysis was really all , all it could do at the beginning , after the First World War , shall we say . |
| 30 | That was the best , at least I understand that was the best the Secretary of State could do at the time . |