Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken some comfort from the fact that he had been the last man to board the cage , so at least he could watch Yorky and the others exit , before his turn came . |
| 2 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
| 3 | ‘ If I left the can just over there you could say you found it . ’ |
| 4 | At first sight this was like English countryside , but close to where you could see the baked cracked topsoil , the dead convoluted trees , bleached stones like animal skulls and huge pear cactus in bright yellow flower , close to the land was hard , dry and pitiless . |
| 5 | Once at least he could feel that a sermon of his moved his hearers . |
| 6 | But I was impressed , specially by how he could shape shots , and I said , ‘ This is the guy for me . ’ |
| 7 | And somewhere along there you could say , ‘ Right . ’ |
| 8 | Er , I must n't be guilty of commercials but in the last council meeting of the night , again the subject came up of how we could welcome people coming to mass and this is nothing to do with a request council at all and er we ended up , and I think it 's fair to say what we decided er here , that people would individually they did n't know approach them . |
| 9 | If she can get that out of here they could find out what 's wrong with her , but it wo n't come . |
| 10 | of the client to lead you on to perhaps you could introduce more elements into your actual |
| 11 | And I 'm angry that I 'm not doing anything , ’ so I thought maybe for once I could use my name — my fame — in a constructive way and maybe make it heard above that dreadful silence . |
| 12 | She did n't dare raise her head to look through the window in case she was spotted , but at least from here she could make a fair guess at where Adam and the stranger were located in the room . |
| 13 | If her marriage had to be mentioned at all — and she did n't see why it was even necessary , it had absolutely nothing to do with her work as a book illustrator — then at least they could have got the facts straight , and described her as separated . |
| 14 | Steven decided that if he could n't come up with a definitive artistic statement to impress the grown-ups , then at least he could impress them with the definitive bank statement . |
| 15 | If only Nubenehem remembered it , then at least he could establish for certain which girl had been at the City of Dreams . |