Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she could stay just the one night , then look for something cheaper in the morning . |
| 2 | But one day she asked if she could stay out the whole day , and away she went on her little pony , with her two dogs running behind . |
| 3 | Changes in stratospheric water vapour due to changes in methane and stratosphere-troposphere exchange could affect both the radiative budget and the temperature of PSC formation . |
| 4 | ‘ I believe we could build up the parliamentary group to more than 100 members . ’ |
| 5 | González could deliver neither the central UGT demand of either full(ish) employment nor adequate welfare protection . |
| 6 | All the internal doors were open and she could make out the tumbled travel bags she had left half-packed and which now spilled their contents across the room . |
| 7 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 8 | His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs . |
| 9 | Their vision was by now more adapted to the darkness , and silhouetted against the glow of the fires , they could make out the black bulk of the castle . |
| 10 | From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry . |
| 11 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 12 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 13 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 14 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |
| 15 | It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt . |
| 16 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |
| 17 | And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars . |
| 18 | Ahead of her , straight ahead , she could make out the grey hills on the far side of the estuary and to her right where the land first widened out and then melted away altogether , the sea flowed to the ocean , limitless , miles of moving , salty water . |
| 19 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 20 | Therefore , para. ( c ) could swallow up the other paragraphs . |
| 21 | The effective teacher of history was the person who could elicit clearly the moral messages to be gleaned from studying the lives of the great and the good ; the age demanded that this should be interpreted mainly within an imperial context with the emphasis upon citizenship and service . |
| 22 | I suspect part of the reason behind the council buying the ground in 1983 ? was so they could knock down the old rugby league stadium . |
| 23 | I could buy up the whole block . |
| 24 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 25 | With the selection of some anti-O'Neill candidates in the 1970 Stormont elections and the Westminster elections of the same year , the conservatives sensed that they could win back the Unionist Party machine . |
| 26 | After the fiasco with Mortimer it just was n't possible that this … this insulting individual could arouse even the slightest flicker of response in her , was it ? |
| 27 | Then she retreated in bleak anguish to her bedroom , and sat hunched in the window-seat , looking out over the soft rolling lawns and distant Cotswold hills , dimly aware that her single most painful desire was that her mother were still alive , so she could pour out the secret desolation to the one person who 'd have understood … |
| 28 | Morton had met many like him ; the thrusting entrepreneurs who could shoulder aside the rigid structures of Victorian society , and almost be accepted … |
| 29 | All too easily they feared , a recce might leave traces of the visit which , even if the lone navigator was not captured , could give away the intended landing point for an assault force . |
| 30 | To estimate the MPC t α 1 , it might be thought that we could carry out the following regression : where is an error term , and treat the value obtained for as an estimate of the MPC t α : 1 . |