Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I could stay here for a day or two , ’ she said . |
| 2 | If he , Neil , was content to leave the house unwatched by day , and to spend his time looking at rocks on the broch island , then I could stay indoors with a clear conscience , and wait for the rainstorm to pass . |
| 3 | ‘ And ambushing might work for a long-legged frog like Ferd , but I do n't think I could leap out of a bush if I tried . |
| 4 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 5 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 6 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 7 | What if you , if you lent us some dosh I suppose I could be with Louise tonight , right , I could go home with a big bunch of flowers cos I 'll have a guilty expression on my face . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't insult you by thinking I could learn enough in a couple of days . |
| 9 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |
| 10 | She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted . |
| 11 | I could get on with a man like that . |
| 12 | So I could jump out of an aeroplane and fire a machine gun . |
| 13 | No , you know , if I could work somewhere in an office where I could use my car |
| 14 | But matters were so arranged that for most the outlook was not completely bleak ; almost everyone could arrive eventually at a state of relative freedom from intimidation and enjoy a measure of authority over others . |
| 15 | Nothing could stay outside on a night like this . |
| 16 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 17 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 18 | Afraid that she might have hurt Nora , who was sitting very quietly , Louise added , ‘ Of course , she 'll miss you but I do think she could stay on for a little longer , to see what might happen . ’ |
| 19 | Early that afternoon , as soon as she could get away from a lunch with colleagues from her department , Loretta set off for the Sunday Herald building . |
| 20 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 21 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 22 | It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot . |
| 23 | Perhaps she could fade away in a faded villa like the Villa Fiesole where the Durance coterie had faded to nothing . |
| 24 | She could see only through a watery mist and realized after a moment 's panic that she still had her reading glasses on . |
| 25 | From this room she could see out through a wide window into a dense stand of woodland , which seemed to crowd together , not quite hiding a track leading to a small cave . |
| 26 | Heston 's the only man who could drop out of a cubic moon — he 's so square [ very hip talk for 1964 ! ] . |
| 27 | It may be unfair on clubs who could lose out as a result of weak Quins combinations , but I would hate to see the Football League system of fining clubs for this practice being brought into rugby . |
| 28 | Len was unquestionably one of the best defenders in the 3rd Division South in the mid-1950s , but in addition he was a talented fellow who could turn out in a surprising number of positions ( he actually played in seven different ones for us , and that in a day when ‘ utility ’ players were unusual ) and his Palace career spanned ten seasons . |
| 29 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |
| 30 | Essentially the four areas are computational modelling , what contribution a do n't write these down because they 're not the same as the ones on the board , but it 's looking at the role of computational modelling in perception , although you could start off with a broader definition of it within cognitive psychology . |