Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could visualize the first restless stirring among tribes on the steppes of Central Asia , then the terrifying eruption of hordes of unknown people : lurching , creaking wagons , unkempt women and children , squat , slit-eyed men in padded garments , innumerable horses , felt tents , troops of mounted archers forever on the move . |
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| 3 | In the next 12 weeks we could lose the next general election . ’ |
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| 5 | He kept two bags always packed , one for hot climes and one for cold , so that immediately he heard of an eruption he could board the next available ship . |
| 6 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |