Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [pron] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding , the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss . |
| 2 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Flittern said , folding himself onto the bench beside her , ‘ we could perhaps tempt you with a bottled rogue amorous thought , distilled at the first quarter of the moon , and salted with a spark of starlight . |
| 3 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 4 | The next logical step was to present the bream with a small hook and bait which would be more likely to be right inside their lips when they began to carry it off , but to still retain the heaviness so that they could not manage it with a mere suck . |
| 5 | They could n't hold one with a defendant who was just a mangled lump of flesh . ’ |
| 6 | Could n't do it with a black one . |
| 7 | He could even provide me with a gun if I needed one . |
| 8 | five or six other people on campus who could potentially do it with a just one night 's look an and a diagram . |
| 9 | You could never fool him with a note and he never let you get away with anything . ’ |
| 10 | Yet he could never identify himself with a counter-attack either . |