Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even more secret , so secret that I could scarcely even admit it to myself , was my sense of inadequacy . |
| 2 | An amputee , she could not yet accustom herself to what was lost and gone , lost as her parents scattered in fragments over the Nevada desert . |
| 3 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 4 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 5 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 6 | You might say you could measure its position to ten decimal places , but you could always then measure it to eleven and predict a completely different result ; all the difference between a whirlwind which knocked down someone 's house and a single molecule of oxygen disappearing up their nose . |
| 7 | A lot of them , of course , were so secret that Mr Marr could n't even show them to me . |
| 8 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 9 | you could n't really take him to a tribunal could you , 'cos ya |
| 10 | For instance , Wordsworth 's famous poem ‘ My heart leaps up ’ is in 6/8 metre , and one could quite easily fit it to the 6/8 tune of ‘ Jack and Jill ’ : Of course , the result is horrific . |
| 11 | Her bedside book , often reread , was Anthony Trollope 's The Small House at Allington but tonight it could no longer translate her to the reassuring , comfortable , nostalgic world of Barsetshire , to croquet on Mrs Dale 's lawn and dinner at the squire 's table . |