Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] could [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wonder whether this has anything to do with an ‘ upgradeable ’ machine DEC seems to be using where you could yank out the 80486 and substitute a P5 . |
| 2 | I managed to wriggle my hands out of the tape so I could pull down the gag , poke my head out of the sack and breathe more freely . |
| 3 | I could n't wait to finish at the studio that day so I could slip down the record shop to pick up a copy , and several months later I still have n't stopped playing it . |
| 4 | Then she retreated in bleak anguish to her bedroom , and sat hunched in the window-seat , looking out over the soft rolling lawns and distant Cotswold hills , dimly aware that her single most painful desire was that her mother were still alive , so she could pour out the secret desolation to the one person who 'd have understood … |
| 5 | You might be tempted to attribute it to lowish wage rates ( at the Brasserie ? ) , but a good answer would produce figures to justify this assertion ( you know both the staffing structure and the total wage bill for 1983 , at least , so you could work out the average gross wage per annum and relate it to what you knew about catering wages for the period ) . |
| 6 | We 've already valued the use of free displays or whatever erm if I could point out the recommendations that the members agree in the report , the members agreed Harlow Council 's continued membership of the museums and Essex committee . |
| 7 | Supposing I could call up the eagles ? |
| 8 | It would keep me going for the afternoon , until I could heat up the rest of the chicken for supper . |
| 9 | I leaned further over until I could see down the line of houses . |
| 10 | But until she could find out the truth from Mrs McMahon she 'd have to tread warily , which meant continuing this absurd fiction . |
| 11 | At Morrison & Gibb , according to one survivor , the girls went up to a special room to learn all the types , and another former Morrison & Gibb " learner " remembered that " you were given a card with the lay of the case " and just had to get on with it , practising until you could pick up the type correctly . |
| 12 | ‘ There was a lot to do with telephones , ’ says Ian , ‘ like you could turn down the stereo as you picked up the phone ! ’ |
| 13 | But one day she asked if she could stay out the whole day , and away she went on her little pony , with her two dogs running behind . |
| 14 | Leaving aside his feelings and motives , her feelings were so intense that if she could blot out the knowledge that he 'd just used her , the two nights spent in his arms would glow like jewels in the ashes of the years . |
| 15 | I would be very grateful if you could list out the mods that are really required in order to carry out this job . |
| 16 | If you could cut out the sound track of shells and sniper fire , ignore the gaping holes in the beautiful buildings and the lack of water and electricity , and did n't notice the rubbish in the streets , you would think of it as a normal city . ’ |
| 17 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 18 | But no one in Class 1 had seemed unduly disturbed by his account of them , even if the Husayn twins had said that pigs were ‘ boring ’ and had asked if they could bring in the novelization of Terminator Two . |
| 19 | He must wait until he could find out the truth . |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Amiss , ‘ from what you say , it 's not as if he could bring in the police and have the club cleansed of sin . |
| 21 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 22 | Because sometimes , if the employer goes along , people will think , oh yes , they 're only doing it to get their quota up , and they regard it as something that just helps us , and we can get nearer our quota , and it might be something that we could encourage the unions to help us with , because they could point out the positive benefits to people to be registered , despite the rotten name that they 're called . |
| 23 | Yet , while it could play down the challenge of British fascism it could not ignore the threat of European fascism . |
| 24 | Before she could reply , before she could sort out the details , even , he launched himself on her and stopped her mouth with his . |
| 25 | But fitzAlan spoke again before she could pin down the feeling . |
| 26 | Before she could set out the cups she had to remove a large heavy book — Crockford — which occupied the centre of the table . |
| 27 | But before she could set off the next day , the hospital telephoned with bad news . |
| 28 | For a moment she was blinded by the glare of headlights before she could pick out the white mini behind them . |
| 29 | One of the things he had not envisaged was how long it would take before he could send out the first invoice . |
| 30 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |