Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] could [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when her husband cracked another joke , she found she could laugh with the rest . |
| 2 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 3 | I went home every weekend for three nights and on Wednesday night , and believed I could blast up the motorway when summoned for the birth . |
| 4 | She thought his resignation was ‘ inevitable ’ but believed he could return to the Government later . |
| 5 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 6 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 7 | In the seventeenth century some preformationists claimed they could detect in the head of the sperm cell a tiny person in miniature — a homunculus — just waiting to emerge . |
| 8 | Westland claimed it could rely upon the arbitral clause within the contract to bring an action for breach of contract against both the Organisation and the member States . |
| 9 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 10 | Personally , I used to devote what little thought I could muster to the question of nutcrackers . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , she wo n't know if nobody tells her , ’ said Camille , but , in truth , she knew she could depend on the discretion of her friends . |
| 12 | ‘ I — uh — thought we could go to the beach or something , ’ he offered . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought we could run up the river as far as Richmond or Kew , ’ he said , changing the subject abruptly . |
| 14 | In many countries the government stimulates such enterprises by providing some start-up capital , but the spokesman for our government came across very poorly , with totally negative comments to the effect that if inventors thought they could rely on the government for help , they were wrong . |
| 15 | She did not approve of amateurs , especially amateurs who thought they could step into the shoes of professional models . |
| 16 | The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent . |
| 17 | There was no evidence yet that Isabella enjoyed widespread support in England , and Edward no doubt felt he could count on the loyalty of the nobles to whom he committed responsibility for the defence of the south coast . |
| 18 | And he thought he could do without the high-interest assistance of French or Swiss bankers . |
| 19 | Ever-loyal Leigh says that 's grossly unfair on a woman who proved she could act in the movie Madame Sousatzka and that she could sing and dance in the film version of Thirties musical The Boyfriend . |
| 20 | Said she could check with the hotel if she wanted to be sure . |
| 21 | She wished she could stand in the night and laugh , but already she had been heard . |
| 22 | His voice was guarded , but through it all she could hear the yearning and she wished she could break through the barriers he 'd erected against her ; she dearly wanted him to reveal his true self . |
| 23 | Claudia put her hands to her burning face and wished she could fall through the floor . |
| 24 | We were both disappointed but Nellie said we could wait until the next time . |
| 25 | After they 'd used the phone , Yvonne said they could wait in the lounge . |
| 26 | Athelstan could n't leave his parish and go into the city , but he wished he could speak to the coroner , apologise for leaving him so abruptly the night before last . |
| 27 | But when he said so , hoping that they would find him a job away from the Zoo , they said instead that if he wanted he could work through the remaining years to his retirement as general helper and sweeper . |