Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] could [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 4 | From the front attic window we could see down the rue de Fleuve to the river . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Each night I could take out the Vitou dog , a fine little white fox terrier called Mitsy . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the breeding aquarium they could suck in the fry and result in heavy losses . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Fran took a slow deep breath , then another and another , but there was no way she could hold back the knifing pain . |
| 16 | A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor . |
| 17 | Suddenly , beyond , in the black solidity she could make out the pattern in the sun-whitened rocks : the lips of craters . |
| 18 | There 's no hit here , but given the right bullshit production she could stick out the next ‘ Damn I Wish Etc ’ . |