Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could I phrase the question so that I could distinguish between free choice and manipulative coercion ? |
| 2 | To clear myself I could appear in secret session before the McCarthy committee so that nobody would know . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
| 4 | He did n't notice me , but lapsed heavily into what even I could recognize as elementary German . |
| 5 | I could continue at great length . |
| 6 | I could sense with new delight |
| 7 | As I said before , I could go to half-day school here . |
| 8 | If I could go to bloody work , I would ! |
| 9 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 10 | ‘ Sometimes I could kill for fresh pasta . ’ |
| 11 | I felt I could weep with nostalgic affection . |
| 12 | I have already mentioned the stipulation that before I could qualify for married status I should have passed two language exams . |
| 13 | So I brought them home with me so I could , I could take in actual fact I could take them back . |
| 14 | consider inspection procedures which could lead to early detection of damage that could lead to failure of a blade |
| 15 | Related to this is of course the general sexist bias throughout the educational system whereby from an early age girls are discouraged from taking subjects such as maths and science , etc. which could lead to high status apprenticeship training and further education in the science and technology fields . |
| 16 | For instance , there is a whole range of factors which could lead to high food costs , including bad purchasing , storage or portion control , but there is n't any supporting evidence in the case itself for most of these . |
| 17 | Britain , for example , has been left with political institutions which were ideally suited to the protection of private property and enterprise and which could cope with limited government and restricted public power in which the executive was dominant . |
| 18 | Two two three , the new highway schemes may provide major development opportunities and for the two thousand and six town plan , the county will allocate sites which could benefit from new road access . |
| 19 | Even in 1831 , at a moment of mass mobilisation , George Thompson on tour encountered conflict between dissenters in Dartford and then in Faversham confronted such distance between church and chapel abolitionists that he doubted the possibility of a lecture which could draw in cross-denominational support . |
| 20 | A consistent theme within English studies since the 1970s has been the call for a " methodology " capable of describing and analysing the " nature of the knowledge specific to English as a discourse " , or at least offer a " fully articulated and logically coherent appraisal which could count as indubitable knowledge about a given literary work " . |
| 21 | CLEAR estimates that there are already four million cars in Britain which could run on unleaded petrol without adjustment , and a further nine million could do so with minor adjustment . |
| 22 | In other scenarios , almost everyone could move to low-density countryside houses and communicate via the electronic technology that is already available , or alternatively people could recolonize the countryside and run smallholdings ( Anderson , 1975 ) . |
| 23 | The Cutty Sark was launched in 1869 and was built for speed so that she could compete with other clipper ships in the China tea trade . |
| 24 | She could do without large conscript armies to defend land frontiers and needed long-service troops who could be employed overseas for long periods . |
| 25 | Meredith , trying to use her bump of direction thought they had gone in a circle and as far as she could tell through teeming rain and darkness , were in the middle of the open moor or common . |
| 26 | Once she got her bearings , she could head for Dead Rat and get Doc Threadneedle to sort out her skullplates . |
| 27 | She must concentrate hard so she could report in full detail when she got back to her eager students . |
| 28 | Frankly , she could survive in great happiness for a very long time without ever setting eyes on him again . |
| 29 | He had his eyes closed , and for the first few moments Belinda kept hers open , so she could see in extreme close-up the blurred crescents of his dark lashes resting on the smoothly tanned skin of his cheeks . |
| 30 | Tomorrow Hari would go to Ma Popits first thing and see what cast-off clothing she could buy for young Will . |