Example sentences of "[adv] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 2 | It seemed that I just could n't turn desire into reality . |
| 3 | Great run again by Mickey , did ever so well , came inside , knocked a good ball into , unfortunately he just could n't get hold of it and the goalkeeper came out and collected it . |
| 4 | Leeds just could nt keep possession for any time , so were nt building attacks , even the clearances started going out of play . |
| 5 | The skiing developments in Caimgorm 's attracted only 1.5% skiers from overseas and even if the proposal did go ahead for expansion they still could not draw skiers from Europe . |
| 6 | He also could not visit Spain without recollecting that last romantic horizon , the Spanish Civil War . |
| 7 | He often could not hear questions in the House of Commons and had to have them repeated to him by Margesson , his Chief Whip . |
| 8 | The mud which held so tenaciously could also give way in a moment , if conditions altered . |
| 9 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the same music had to serve for six more stanzas — Pisano wrote fresh music for the short final one and therefore could not reflect details of the text . |
| 11 | The signed statement was held to be ineffective since it was given after the contract was made and therefore could not incorporate terms into the contract . |
| 12 | Thus the car did not belong to the customer who therefore could not transfer ownership to X. |