Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] could [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only she could turn back the clock she would never have come to this wretched country in the first place . |
| 2 | Perhaps you could blow out the candles in here and then check that the ones in the living-room are safe ? |
| 3 | And perhaps we could open up the pest house |
| 4 | He added : ‘ If only we could roll back the frontiers of the 1960s . ’ |
| 5 | And then we 're sent a whole lot of magnets so we could test out the cans were . |
| 6 | If only they could conjour up the magic of their last meeting against Milwall last season … three nil the score then . |
| 7 | I suspect part of the reason behind the council buying the ground in 1983 ? was so they could knock down the old rugby league stadium . |
| 8 | If only he could pick up the rock and hurl it , defiantly , to reciprocate the violence with such a true aim , that it would smash whatever the chosen target . |
| 9 | Gradually , almost imperceptibly , the light strengthened and soon he could make out the shape of boats , the mexeflote causeway and the patchwork of woods and fields on the island . |
| 10 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 11 | And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars . |
| 12 | At least you could tune out the gawkers when you did catwalk modelling , but down here , wandering through the crowd , people treated you as if you were — |
| 13 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 14 | She would in a moment , when she could summon up the energy . |
| 15 | Or else she could spin out the repair until it was too late and they had to get somebody else . |