Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 2 | The launderers were at their evening meal — I could see their backs at the windows . |
| 3 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 4 | He had grown close to Gerry Gomez since the day he had asked if he could meet his sister at the airport , and they now worked together admirably . |
| 5 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 6 | This was led through the streets in furrows so that each burger could have his turn at the stream to irrigate his garden , with its vegetables and flowers . |
| 7 | The Albanian leader could express his shock at the gangsterish methods of Gheorghiu-Dej in the late 1940s without for one moment admitting to himself , let alone to his readers , that he was even remotely hypocritical given his own tendency to resort to rubbing out rivals personally ( including shooting his prime minister and long-term comrade-in-arms , Mehmet Shehu , in 1981 ) . |