Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 2 | Feeling dejected , she tried to push the questions from her mind , and as soon as the register formalities had been completed she left the office and went to see if she could assist Matt with the loading of the barbecue trailer . |
| 3 | The man who taught me English could recite Burns by the hour . ’ |
| 4 | A UNIQUE project could mark Liverpool as the country 's leader in school building trends . |
| 5 | I could see Martina down the end of the passage , aproned , with plates in her hand . |
| 6 | He could see Ruth at the door of his office , frowning , shaking her head , looking back over her shoulder . |
| 7 | And Julius Caesar stood in France in because he was in , the place he captured in France , and he could see Britain across the water and he wondered what the land was like over there . |
| 8 | He could see Vasco on the street , fourteen years old , face like a guitar . |
| 9 | She could see Dorcas in the back of the cab , explaining what various levers did . |
| 10 | PREMIER John Major was ambushed by the Germans last night in a move which could force Britain off the road to European unity . |
| 11 | ’ You could try Ezra at the corner . ’ |
| 12 | Out in the hall he could hear Bagshot at the reception desk dialling a number . |
| 13 | He could hear Wolf in the blackness , coming closer , and knew he must distract Fox from hearing his approach , or Fox would drag them both back into the redness . |
| 14 | He could hear Sabrina in the bar below talking to the two men . |
| 15 | He was 24 , highly intelligent , could drink Malc under the table and had a dry , lightning wit . |
| 16 | oh , I used to say when , if we were living in England now , we could go Scotland for the weekend , we could go to the Lake District , we could go to the Cheddar Gorges , we do nowt . |
| 17 | Serota , who danced with the Royal Ballet ( as Angela Beveridge ) , persuaded Bruce to apply for the position of artistic director because she believed he could restore Rambert to the forefront of British dance . |
| 18 | MARK RAMPRAKASH could leave Middlesex at the end of the season — in a desperate bid to save a career that is heading for the rocks . |
| 19 | She did n't feel she could bother Mike with the problem either ; he might be team manager , but like everyone else his thoughts were closely tied up in the cars and their drivers . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's result means that he will be able to take on the Euro-sceptic rump in the Tory Party and put through the legislation that could put Britain on the road to a single European currency by the late 1990s . |