Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt shy of talking about my feelings with Terry and Tom and wished I could have half an hour alone with Brian . |
| 2 | Though only I could follow such a trace . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I could hear all the banging and screaming and then about seven or eight minutes later they dragged him out . |
| 4 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 5 | I wish I could take all the scolding myself . |
| 6 | That someone could get half the question right . |
| 7 | He chose a five percent discount rate table and in my opinion nobody could fault such a choice . |
| 8 | With more than 20 years of rallying behind him , Short could give Sainz , or more importantly his co-driver Luis Moya , extra information which could make all the difference between winning , losing , or , even worse , crashing . |
| 9 | Now they look to have a side which could go all the way for the first time . |
| 10 | The Lincoln Red was at first known as the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn : it originated when eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Durham and Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls were put on the large , rugged , pied Old Lincolnshire short-horned draught cows which could withstand all the weather thrown at this east coast county by the cold North Sea winds . |
| 11 | It was a Wednesday morning and she walked on the beach before dawn , early so she could dawdle all the way to the fish lines and be home in time to make breakfast and get her gran up and doing . |
| 12 | Scarlet had just thrown away a bunch of dried Proveņcal flowers which had adorned her sideboard for over a year and was already feeling slightly better : she thought that if only she could rearrange all the furniture , she might be cured , but it seemed too drastic a step to take . |
| 13 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 14 | I feel I have unfinished business with you said Jay , amazed that she could use such an adult phrase , when alone , her mouth sagged and stretched and gasped with momma , momma , the pain shrieked from her navel , she even sucked her thumb in the hope that do-it-yourself primal therapy would ease something . |
| 15 | I mean , I 've needed four years to get to this point so she could have all the time in the world as far as I was concerned . |
| 16 | Who could refuse such an invitation , knowing that this would be the trip of a lifetime . |
| 17 | How do you feel about the person who could do such a thing ? |
| 18 | The only one who could pay such a debt was a perfect person because a sinful person would be unacceptable to God . |
| 19 | ‘ Who could leave such a thing there ? ’ |
| 20 | The Air Ministry firmly believed that fundamentally it was a question of pure navigation , and furthermore they were convinced that they knew one man who could lead such a formation to meet the planned Bomber Force envisaged by the Chiefs of Staff — but he was not even in the RAF , He was a professional Imperial Airways pilot with an international reputation — a host of " firsts " in world aviation events and , even more importantly , he was an outstanding navigator . |
| 21 | It was written by Mary Edgar to a Mrs Waddell ; nothing is known about either of them , but one would like to have known Mary Edgar who could write such a letter . |
| 22 | One answer could be that , where the damage is caused by fire , the consequent danger to life may be similar to that created by an explosion , and the inferences may be the same : who could cause such a fire in such a place without appreciating the danger to others ? |
| 23 | I dare say if you could quantify such a thing , my need is far far greater than yours . ’ |
| 24 | . But the people were grand , the people I worked with , and you could talk all the while . |
| 25 | You could relish both the pain of the children and your grief at the same time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I still do n't understand how you could do such a thing , ’ Michael complained . |
| 27 | I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you could consider that a brush off . ’ |
| 29 | Like warmth , if you could hear such a thing . |
| 30 | We thanked him and as we were leaving he added that we could leave all the press arrangements to him . |