Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that if the lawyer had felt he was being unfair to him he could appeal to another court . |
| 2 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 3 | If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals . |
| 4 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ But it was a good thing I was n't impatient , because the entertainment Linda and Emelda provided was far superior to anything I could have managed. ! |
| 6 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |