Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could make tomorrow evening for dinner , though . |
| 2 | He confirmed that the Scottish Office money could cover only cash flow difficulties from the oil funds — not the producers . |
| 3 | Later still he got an oil engine ; and people at that time could buy both coal and oil from the miller . ’ |
| 4 | The workers , placed in a situation where they could trust neither management nor union , entered into an uneasy alliance with the group , engaging in a series of discussions and meetings over the summer of 1980 . |
| 5 | If you , if you like , I could speak now Chair ? |
| 6 | I 'd just approached a woman ( who , it emerged , could speak only Mandarin ) , to ask her about the joys of cycling . |
| 7 | Lucien could smell only incense . |
| 8 | You could borrow there stock , is that what you 're thinking and then take back what we did n't sell . |
| 9 | This change came about not because we were getting too big for our binding , rather we felt we could do better justice to the rich pageant of life at Sainsbury 's with more elbow room . |
| 10 | What sort of creature was she after all who could feel only loathing for a woman who had suffered so ? |
| 11 | Perhaps we could ring tomorrow afternoon when the children are up ? |
| 12 | ‘ But they will never take you , Don — I will hide you here — no , I will hide you up at the old shieling hut — or we could run away west into Rannoch — ‘ There are forts everywhere . |
| 13 | We could see neither station nor buildings . |
| 14 | And in his yellow eyes I could see only hate and evil . |
| 15 | Restlessly Leith moved over to the window , but while the view from her room was quite exquisite , she saw nothing of it and could see only Naylor 's furious face as he accused her of leading Travis on . |
| 16 | Only long cloaks blowing , up on top of the young dunes , a gaze of strange cold eyes , a flash of spear-points — then the rain drove across , and Ruth could see only night . |
| 17 | They could see only darkness from the invisible bars of their prison . |
| 18 | She could detect only agony : her eardrums rupturing under the pressure ; something cracking and tearing free , deep in her chest . |
| 19 | She could visualise only dimness and silence , and Hywel in a state of wrathful wonder at finding that alien woman , his wife , in his mother 's house . |
| 20 | The type of off-farm work occasionally dictated the enterprises that the farm could have as time off at critical periods could clash with the off-farm employment . |
| 21 | He stopped again and listened , but could hear neither musketry nor the sounds of marching men . |
| 22 | I tell you , I went up those steps faster than a scalded faggot , propelled by a barbarous diuretic terror on behalf of my exposed rear end The heavy door at the top did n't give until the fifth push , but by then I had turned , and seen the shrugging figures as they retreated into the light , and now I could hear only laughter . |
| 23 | Now , with new carts , he could drag both water and food to where they were needed . |
| 24 | England in 1920 , it testified to a similar recognition by him that the amateur ideal in the arts , however admirable in the abstract , and however rich its achievements under earlier structures of society , under the conditions of mass democracy could mean only amateurishness in technique , and thin-skinned insolence in debate . |
| 25 | Although he had influenced popes and kings , he ended his life as a disappointed man , mourning the passage of a simpler world in which a bishop could serve both church and monarchy . |
| 26 | While Tayside Region and Perth and Kinross District Council indicated they could afford only part of the survey , estimated at £80,000-£100,000 , the Scottish Office reply was unequivocal . |
| 27 | ‘ If we simply sit back and do nothing , we could lose both mother and baby . |
| 28 | The great advantage of Realism was that it could justify both accommodation and the building up of armaments in the name of a balance of power . |
| 29 | It could involve both satellite and ground base station wireless local area — and eventually wide-area networking . |
| 30 | Science could offer both sanctuary and its own brand of sanctification . |