Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 2 | You could regard it as that part of the personality which is contr in control of voluntary thought and movement . |
| 3 | I could beat you along that line if I liked . |
| 4 | I could do something with that hair . ’ |
| 5 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 6 | Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure . |
| 7 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 8 | It was undesirable to make an order which would in practice be executed before the defendant could avail himself of that opportunity . |
| 9 | so we could take it from that stage even |
| 10 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 11 | If I could lead you from that paragraph on page three fifty over to page three six four page three six four , one two three , four paragraphs from the top it 's ab it 's the second of two paragraphs that begins the Board affirms the church 's th that Christ teaches that marriage is special and divorce is not the way he would wish for his people and then this sentence no-one would wish to condens condemn someone to stay in a marriage which is beyond redeeming . |
| 12 | I doubt if she could drive it in that time . |
| 13 | He could lose himself in that sweetness , maybe even forget , for a while … |
| 14 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 15 | You could get anything in that shop , though . |
| 16 | Alas , my aquatic love , said another line , and Jaromil knew that the aquatic love was Magda ; but he also knew that nobody else could find her in that line … ’ . |
| 17 | I think one could find something of that order . |