Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , Laguna Chica itself was so beautiful in its tranquillity that my heart could not help but lift . |
| 2 | ‘ My heart could n't stand the strain . ’ |
| 3 | If I touch you here , then I certainly have everything my heart could desire . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I never thought my hair could look so good , ’ said a delighted , new-look Aimee . |
| 5 | After that , I thought my support could perhaps be less , that I had done the work . |
| 6 | ‘ Even my grannie could have scored from there ! ’ |
| 7 | If I said , ‘ It looks blue ’ but otherwise seemed incapable of colour discrimination , of being able to respond differently , verbally and in other ways , to differently coloured things , and , particularly , of being able to tell when other blue things were present and when absent , then people would rightly suspect that I did not know what I was talking about , that my experience could not really be of its looking blue . |
| 8 | That had at least prepared me , in ways that no other part of my experience could have done , for the chaos and complexity of industrial life . |
| 9 | So you see , though I would n't dream of advising you how to arrange a bouquet , there are plenty of other areas where my experience could be of help . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was just a caretaker , until my successor could be trained , ’ he said more gently . |
| 11 | It seemed odd that my skin could be so wet and my mouth so dry . |
| 12 | My Mum could n't remember his second name . ’ |
| 13 | Some played Monopoly ( which is a daft game to try to play in twenty minutes — even my Mum could n't go bankrupt in that time ) and others joined several games together and invented one new one which they called ‘ Scruvial Cluedopolybats ’ . |
| 14 | She wrote my mum a long letter saying that I was a Devil Child and the best thing my mum could do with me was have me exorcized . |
| 15 | My mum could n't stand it in the end she sa let's get back to bomb there ! |
| 16 | My mum could n't believe it when I shaved my legs , thought it absolutely outrageous . |
| 17 | In my jumper could n't I ? |
| 18 | Jack Scamp was ignoring me , but I had a feeling my luck could n't last . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , I approached this child — ( he smiles at Geraldine [ disguised as a boy ] ) — my action could result only in a gross violation of the order of things . |
| 20 | Outside school walls , my mind could travel to Haggard 's |
| 21 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 22 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 23 | ‘ Luckily it 's a very old bath and only my shoulders could be seen , ’ she managed to joke . |
| 24 | Glaring at Matt , she snapped , ‘ How dare you say my ears could be used for horse blinkers ? |
| 25 | And it sort of weighed me down and slowed me down till my legs could n't hardly move . |
| 26 | My brothers could n't wash her and dress her and wash her hair could they ? … |
| 27 | Firstly , in my setting could the interventions listed be applied with the same likely success as in the time period and setting reflected in the league table ? |
| 28 | I was going to Lowestoft for two days but my clothing could last me weeks . |
| 29 | My return could give them a lift . ’ |
| 30 | Anita echoes this : ‘ As parents , we 're trying hard to bring our three up decently , and the thought that my sister-in-law could chuck it all out of the window depresses the hell out of me . |