Example sentences of "could [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could for certain do |
| 2 | The same procedure was adopted as for the immediate recall part of the experiment but words were used from set B. However , before the subject was allowed to recall the words an arbitrary three digit number , provided below the word list for each trial , was given to the subject and the subject asked to repeat the number and count backwards by threes as fast as they could for thirty seconds . |
| 3 | We hammered on the door for the gaoler and returned to the main gates of the prison where Benjamin left a coin and instructed the sadistic bastard to do what he could for poor Taplow . |
| 4 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ I did everything I possibly could for that girl . |
| 6 | I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus . |
| 7 | So it was all a hotchpotch , it was all and I had to do the the best I could for those who showed fish and that was the only way I could do it . |
| 8 | For instance , concern over a drama examination could for some candidates obliterate the possibility of second-order experiencing . |
| 9 | All in good time you will have a bed partner and let me tell you , you will care for her far more than you ever could for this one . |
| 10 | So if you avoid trying to muck the switchboard up if you could between 9 and 9.30 and 1 and 2.00 . |
| 11 | Mrs Henry found out all she could about alternative cancer treatments and dabbled in some of them . |
| 12 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 13 | She needed to learn as much as she could about this area of mental disturbance . |
| 14 | And now put mm now think of something that you could times that adds up to three hundred and sixty . |
| 15 | Er , maybe I could after five o'clock . |
| 16 | ( 183 ) But she admired even more what came later ; how after she had ceased wanting to blot him entirely from her mind , to make him not to be , they had found that they could after all talk good sense and kindness to each other . |
| 17 | " I see him constantly , " said Sara and left Jenny to make what she could of that . |
| 18 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 19 | It said : We Could Of Kiled You . |
| 20 | It then had to be left to his governors and his staff colleagues to make such use as they could of any combination of qualities which he revealed . |
| 21 | In which case , what better , what other remedy than to push yourself as hard as you could towards all extremes to feel alive , but keep the centre inviolate ? |
| 22 | Their job was to hold on as long as they could against impossible odds , so as to give the rest of the army time to concentrate in a hammer-blow at the enemy centre . |
| 23 | Before they sailed from London they had undertaken to do all that they could under all the emergencies of the voyage . |
| 24 | I 've done as much as I could with that one but |
| 25 | He felt a sudden unwilling awe for this creature who could with such ease summon and bend to his will the terrible Stroicim Inchinn . |
| 26 | The trustee could with good reason contest the beneficiary 's claim , and might stand a chance of success . |
| 27 | Kimura ( 1977b ) tabulates seven such cases reported in the literature and it is notable that in every case the lesion responsible could with reasonable confidence be localised to the left cerebral hemisphere . |
| 28 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 29 | I think if you got taught sex education in maybe , smaller groups , you know erm if they could with individual teachers |
| 30 | Implicitly , if not explicitly , papal letters could with some truth be said to be ultimum quasi robur and firmamentum of the whole case . |