Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] could [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that it could whack a fist-sized stone well over the creek and twenty metres or more into the undulating ground on the mainland , and once I got keyed into its natural rhythm I could send off a shot every two seconds . |
| 2 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 3 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 4 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 5 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |
| 6 | It grew until it was a window and out through the window she could see down a long tunnel ; and beyond that the sun shining and the mountains rising over the fruit trees . |
| 7 | ‘ Our side is n't the type you could send out every week with instructions just to knock it long all the time . |
| 8 | From the front attic window we could see down the rue de Fleuve to the river . |
| 9 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 10 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 11 | Unlikely as it was that Richard Branson would ever have quite the impact on teenage sensibilities of Duran Duran , the days he could walk down a busy London street totally unrecognised were surely numbered . |
| 12 | Each night I could take out the Vitou dog , a fine little white fox terrier called Mitsy . |
| 13 | Mr Cartwright told Granpa that with my head for figures I could end up an accountant or a clerk . |
| 14 | If you 've got a minute you could fill up the coffee machine again , and I 'll have a word with Jerry when I get back down . ’ |
| 15 | How ironic now to think that she 'd planned the event partly to prove she was capable of organising something major — to show Adam she could pull off a real coup . |
| 16 | So what they did eventually , they put sort of call boxes occasionally , in different parts of the borough so during the night you could ring up the station . |
| 17 | In the breeding aquarium they could suck in the fry and result in heavy losses . |
| 18 | Even at this distance he could make out the faint octarine glow in the air that must be indicating a stable magic aura of at least — he gasped — several milliprime ? |
| 19 | Well , the thing is what 's happening , I thought we might spend some time on if wanted , what I wanted to do was to be sure in my own mind that by the second week I could put up a master sheet with all the headings of what you were doing , that 's got ta be done . |
| 20 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 21 | If the Prime Minister is walking in his garden on a summer 's morning you could push up the rickety sash — like this — and call down to him . |
| 22 | And now it was out of its glass frame he could make out a faded signature at the bottom : |
| 23 | For example , to increase working and manoeuvring space in an existing work triangle you could set up a second food preparation or cooking area with perhaps a microwave oven outside your main work area . |
| 24 | The second scale we could use over a min/maj7 chord is the harmonic minor : |
| 25 | Now , if like me you 've yet to attempt this big production number you could pick up a few tips here , after all , we 've a number of professionals in this hundred , hoteliers , dressmakers , cake makers , photographers , and video makers , registrars , ministers , but above all , we have a lot ex-brides here , and let's start off by finding how many we have . |
| 26 | If she put it all in one account she could step up the return on her £20,000 to 6.45 per cent or £1,290 after tax . |
| 27 | If the forces unleashed are sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia and corruption they could bring about a transformation which will have even greater impact and importance than the development of the NHS in Britain . |
| 28 | As long as mum is alive and as long as I 'm able to look after her , there 's no way I could hold down a job . |
| 29 | A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road . |
| 30 | Fran took a slow deep breath , then another and another , but there was no way she could hold back the knifing pain . |