Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels . |
| 2 | And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ? |
| 3 | Could only get as far as the kitchen . |
| 4 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 5 | The easterners could not complain too bitterly while their exports to Western Europe were growing by double-digit amounts . |
| 6 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 7 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 8 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 9 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 10 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 11 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 12 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 13 | Yet the Nazis knew that they could not behave too outrageously because there was always the threat that the League of Nations might call in the Poles to annex the city and suppress the NSDAP in the name of European peace . |
| 14 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 15 | Look , if you do n't mind a bit of running you could just come as far as the Tube with me and we could continue this conversation on the way . |
| 16 | Her balance was very poor ; she could not stand up on her own , because strong associated reactions would pull her left side over ; her left Achilles tendon was extremely tight ; her left shoulder was very painful ; her arm was pulled into a bent position , with the hand tightly closed in a fist ( flexor spasm ) ; she could hardly sit up straight because of the severe spastic muscle pull on the left side of her body ; her mother had to push Dawn everywhere in her wheelchair , and give her total nursing support . |
| 17 | And that 's why he says to sleep and then if she could n't get to sleep she could like sit up tonight so he could get some sleep instead . |
| 18 | By 1939 Europe could meet her own needs of agricultural products only in olive oil and wine ; in 1880 she could still do much better than this . |
| 19 | The Collector 's chivalry was aroused by Miriam 's weakness , for the heart of a gentleman still beat beneath his ragged morning coat ; besides , he found her an attractive young woman in spite of everything , for she could still smile as sweetly as ever . |
| 20 | Whether we in this country could ever get as far as the Americans have done , remains to be seen . |
| 21 | You could n't leave in less than two days . |
| 22 | But she doubted it would go any further — well , could n't go any further as she was only staying the one night . |
| 23 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 24 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 25 | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word , or name , and then became impatient with herself ; she was often frustrated because she could n't move as swiftly as she did before . |
| 26 | ‘ Come off it , you do consistently well in all your modules — I 've had a word with your course tutor — and as you 've been continually assessed , you could n't flunk now even if you wanted to . |
| 27 | I 'm just gon na ring up cos mum could n't get through yesterday so she 's given me her credit card number to order things . |
| 28 | well I could n't get up there because she know |
| 29 | I could n't run as fast as I would have liked . |
| 30 | It could well go on forever unless one of two things happens , unless everybody guards themselves against giving information away , which as a matter of practice many will do , and many probably wo n't , or secondly that some legislation is brought about to make this an offence , and to treat it seriously . |