Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
| 2 | I could continue at great length . |
| 3 | And the other two things I could mention at this point is that erm this activity , this useful time-structured activity , brings you into contact with other people . |
| 4 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |
| 5 | As a constable at Easton explained , ‘ I could stand at that comer there and catch a hundred people breaking some law or other in one shift , no bother . |
| 6 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 7 | At the moment I 'm not getting any results , and I could go at any time . |
| 8 | I could have at one stage recited to you every discharge from [ the estuary upstream for fifty miles ] on the north bank of the river , in order . |
| 9 | Er , it was the best word that I felt I could use at this time , it may be that a , if a debate ensues from this , or from er , other er , writings about , of myself and other people over this next few months , that a term will emerge that people feel happy with , but certainly we are talking about community partnership . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’ |
| 11 | I could write at greater length about the many qualities which set it way above the average . |
| 12 | If she could look at meat hanging in a butcher 's , the fieldworker was told when she was accompanying policemen to a postmortem , she could look at dead bodies . |
| 13 | To Branson , arguments had never been a symptom of animosity ; rather , he and Powell had always argued ‘ like a married couple , knowing you could shout at each other and it would n't matter ’ . |
| 14 | You could check at this time that there is actually a male present , as two females sometimes act out the spawning procedure , producing infertile eggs ; I have not seen this where males were available , so do not be too hasty to split up a pair , especially if you are not yet confident about sexing your Angels . |
| 15 | And , and , and all , he 'd got all countries ' television er going , you know , so you could look at any country at the moment , the moment it was producing . |
| 16 | There was nothing more we could do at this stage , so we enjoyed a leisurely lunch , and Sunday was cancelled ( which was fortunate , as it rained ) . |
| 17 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 18 | Fortunately the visibility was excellent , and so we could fly at 3,000 feet above the terrain to give us a larger cone of vision as well as options in the event of engine failure . |
| 19 | They could fail at any minute unless the ice was removed from the intakes . |
| 20 | These were groups of people with a common bond who had joined together to make regular contributions into a pool from which they could borrow at low rates of interest . |
| 21 | They could rip at any time . |
| 22 | Maureen said that her mother seemed free of pain but he warned her it could return at any moment . |
| 23 | Last night , Platt said : ‘ It could go at any time , walking across the training ground or even sitting down to lunch . |
| 24 | When there was no further hope , Saga contacted you and offered the best alternative it could find at short notice and , as that was not acceptable , refunded your money in line with their contractual obligations to you . |
| 25 | He insisted that he should visit the Tiller office so that he could observe at first hand how things were run . |
| 26 | It was the best he could do at short notice . |
| 27 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 28 | On the other hand he could work at all hours of the day and night — much to the dismay of his advisers and household servants who would have preferred a more predictable routine . |
| 29 | The only bed he could claim at this point was in his penitential cell , but he went to it eagerly , glad to have a locked door between himself and the world . |
| 30 | It was n't really a question he could ask at this stage . |