Example sentences of "could [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament .
2 I will try to contact you by telephone , but if I do not manage it , I would be grateful if you could try to ring me on the above number , extension 4425 .
3 One could try to approach it with the notion of spheres of competence .
4 But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures .
5 Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said .
6 Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man .
7 Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes .
8 Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children .
9 Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills .
10 Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come .
11 We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received !
12 Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals .
13 Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché .
14 She could have kicked herself for the remark , for allowing Piers to see how much he got underneath her skin , but she could n't prevent herself .
15 In 1974 military engineers stood by to operate power stations in Northern Ireland during the protest strike by the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council , though they could have done nothing without the help of at least the power station managers .
16 If only he could have done it with the Palace !
17 ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’
18 Could have done it from the front .
19 I was mad with him , could have battered him into the ground I could if I was strong enough . ’
20 The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium .
21 Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning .
22 any , any other sort of mouse I could have brought me mouse with me and we could have run it off the serial port erm it 's a pain that Amstrad mouse .
23 ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’
24 You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it .
25 But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ?
26 Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest .
27 ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says .
28 The other girls went together in a group but I was on my own , and I suppose someone could have followed me from the dance …
29 His bomb would have caused enormous damage and more importantly , could have killed anyone in the area .
30 Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to .
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