Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customers who were not known to smile for years actually could not help making the odd comment to the cashiers . |
| 2 | Tim could not have made a better choice . ’ |
| 3 | As confirmation of the significance Harry had detected in Heather 's photographs , Mossop 's retraced route of three months before could not have made a better start . |
| 4 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 5 | He could not have made a finer creature in his own vats . |
| 6 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 7 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 8 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 9 | Only Ron Howard could still manage to make a western like Far And Away , a hallucinatory fantasy of American origins in which native Americans look on indulgently as a bunch of white men carve up their land . |
| 10 | There were at least a dozen big-wave specialists on the North Shore who , if the Eddie Aikau were actually to be held , could reasonably expect to make a small fortune . |
| 11 | She could n't have made a better selection than Keep Talking , a progressive horse both in terms of form and distance . |