Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many times during this pocket lecture she could have turned and looked at her instructor , and put him clean out of countenance merely by looking ; but she had not done it because she was so sure that he was the young man from the entrance booth , a licensed enthusiast , and entitled to his brief moments of emotional escape . |
| 2 | The English embryologist , John Gurdon , in an extensive series of experiments performed during the 1960s , showed that if he transplanted the nucleus from one of the cells of the blastula of early toad embryo it could function as if it were the toad egg 's nucleus . |
| 3 | ‘ With better air support they could have got across . |
| 4 | In fifty years time I could be married . |
| 5 | Once Dai succeeded in getting Bernard 's semi-automatic printer in full working order it could produce 5,000 metres of cloth per week . |
| 6 | From any starting point we could move through the maze in such a way as to recreate the dodo , the tyrannosaur and trilobites . |
| 7 | ‘ In 10 to 15 years time we could have thousands of people suicidally depressed because they took Ecstasy earlier in life . |