Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I could court you with beautiful words , ’ the farmer went on , ‘ but I can only say I love you madly and want you for my wife . |
| 2 | The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm . |
| 3 | I could predict them with reasonable assurance in each case , except Addy . |
| 4 | You could do it with two rulers could n't you . |
| 5 | Word reached Peter Wheeler , the Leicester coach , of a young lad at Wakefield , a full-back , a slick-running full-back at that , who not only could kerplonk the ball like a metronome between the posts but could do it with either foot . |
| 6 | He would pump away until he was exhausted , as though by sheer force he could inject her with fertile seed . |
| 7 | The test was whether a child ‘ accompanied as necessary ’ could use it with reasonable safety . |
| 8 | If you could provide me with some paper . |
| 9 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |
| 10 | I enclose a copy of the original pack , and would be grateful if you could provide us with updated information for the rail leaflet , and any suggestions for additional material . |
| 11 | So I left her £10 and asked her to please tell the warden if she saw her again so that he could call me with any news . |
| 12 | If the worst came to the worst , she could fire it with both hands . |
| 13 | We could equip them with two-way radios , but they would be confiscated at road checks . |
| 14 | And if you go over the top the police could charge you with various types of assault , depending on the damage done . |
| 15 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |