Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [conj] [verb] " 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 | She could laugh and joke with her colleagues but Dexter often wondered how much of the crude banter she found genuinely amusing . |
| 3 | As he won , the winner rang his bell on and on , till he stopped panting and could laugh and talk properly . |
| 4 | There was no need to leave now ; he could stay and talk the matter out He took a few moments to arrange his thoughts , make a few educated guesses and assess the full extent of the plot which had been built around him . |
| 5 | He could stay and sing with Aschmann , or he could break his contract . |
| 6 | ‘ It began with striking his spurs off for disobedience , but ended more on the lines of he could stay and rot for two weeks for all Zacco cared . |
| 7 | ‘ We could stay and fight , ’ said Grimma . |
| 8 | Linlithgow 's Labour MP , Tam Dalyell , has aligned himself with local people fighting the proposed workings and has expressed concern that they could damage or destroy a line of beech trees bounding the site . |
| 9 | Sam despatched all the men he could spare and paced the floor for several hours , the bells jangling around him . |
| 10 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 11 | Many factors , such as differences between social classes in attitudes to marriage , could explain or contribute to explaining the difference . |
| 12 | Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages . |
| 13 | Hank was the product of a boom town and knew that money earned money extremely fast ; with luck , he could double and treble his capital by investment in Tollemarche . |
| 14 | He could double and halve small numbers , decompose the calculation into components and recombine them to find the solution . |
| 15 | ‘ The business carried by our urban railways could double or treble within three to four years , ’ Pettitt believes . |
| 16 | The units shown go to 6,000 gallons which represent a pond some 12′ × 14′ × 6′ deep ; effectively you could double or treble these up but they would be difficult to disguise . |
| 17 | Furthermore , pressed by urban problems and sometimes apparently with other motives , several countries , such as Brazil , Colombia , Indonesia ( where , since 1905 , at least 2.5 million people have been moved from crowded Java , Bali and Lombok , to the ‘ outer ’ islands — an official figure where two or three times this number may have emigrated unassisted ) and Peru are promoting transmigration schemes so that it is projected that the number of forest farmers could double or increase even more than that . |
| 18 | He could oversee and suggest , but not dictate ’ ( Clarke , 1962 , p. 160 ) . |
| 19 | It was better : they could eat and go off and do homework and then watch TV , or on summer evenings , go out and play ball for a while before baths and bed . |
| 20 | Wayne , Ricky 's favourite pony , had such a low threshold of boredom that he had a special manger hooked over the half-door so he could eat and miss nothing in the yard at the same time . |
| 21 | Robbie was ready for a rest and some food , and she groaned inwardly at the thought that Fen would undoubtedly expect her to prepare a meal before she could eat and sink into her bunk . |
| 22 | As Debbie observed , she could eat and eat and not worry about getting fat . |
| 23 | At tournaments and trade shows he always offered ‘ open house ’ and you could eat and drink all day at his expense if you wished , and many did . |
| 24 | They were surprised at how much I could eat and drink . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems as if I really do need to lie down , ’ she said faintly , and then he had swept her off the ground and was carrying her to one of the low , comfortable sofas in a private alcove where donors who were feeling faint could eat and drink in peace and quiet as they recovered . |
| 26 | they were seeing how much more they could eat and take home . |
| 27 | No , I could eat and get away with it . |
| 28 | Throughout the eighteenth century and well into the following one , politicians could aid or hinder the career of a revenue officer , and they did not hesitate to employ that ability for their own ends . |
| 29 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |
| 30 | They were the supreme embodiment of sovereignty ; the army owed obedience to them personally ; the debts of the State were their personal debts ; they could override or anticipate the decisions of any court of law . |