Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total absorption in his passion could submerge him far below the surface of mere time . |
| 2 | ‘ So I climbed into the back seat , ’ he recalled , ‘ stripped off the suit I was wearing and put on my pyjamas , thinking I could dry myself afterwards with the spare pair . |
| 3 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |
| 4 | I was happy in my Office ; it was exacting but I could carry it easily in the House of Lords ; and I had no wish to re-submit myself to the rough and tumble of electioneering and the House of Commons … |
| 5 | She was particularly fun in the choppier water when we could steer her accurately onto the face of the wave of our choice and drive her through the trough at full tilt . |
| 6 | I could see him clearly in the moonlight . |
| 7 | I could see them clearly in the light of the foyer but they could n't see me cloaked in the anonymity of Armstrong — and what more anonymous than a black London cab ? |
| 8 | In London , the big plane tree stuck in the pavement outside Mrs Parvis 's house had three white rings painted round its black trunk so people could see it even in the dark . |
| 9 | Well she thoroughly enjoyed the life , in fact right up , oh till nearly the end she spoke about Pharay and as long as she was able she used to go and she imagined she could see it better with the spy glasses . |
| 10 | that the choice lay between power , which had served us since the days of Clive , and influence which , if we could use it aright in the changed conditions of the twentieth century , would serve us better . |
| 11 | What one knows is that , when a film works , it 's because writer , director and producer were working in harmony and could inspire everybody else on the project with their joint vision . |
| 12 | ‘ Emilia , dearest , do you imagine I could abandon you now at the very moment I have longed for ? |
| 13 | He maintained that Washington feared that the gradual shift of the states of the region into the political orbit of the Non-Aligned Movement could draw them away from the system of ‘ inter-American treaties of mutual assistance ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ If you hold the net firmly , my partner here could draw it closely round the squirrel so that it ca n't struggle . ’ |
| 15 | The advertising market is tough at the moment , total sales fell in real terms in both August and September and no growth is expected in the run up to Christmas , and some contractors believe that combining sales staff could cost them dearly in the battle for market share . |
| 16 | It concludes by suggesting that the reforms are now at a critical stage but there are ways forward which could take us further on the road to Health for All , if we are prepared to take them . |
| 17 | Dot could hear them just inside the house . |
| 18 | And I mean whenever there was one in the flats , you could hear it probably throughout the whole complex . |
| 19 | That way I could hear it faintly in the shop and the soft music would help the atmosphere . |
| 20 | Everybody could hear it all over the factory . |
| 21 | ( He could surprise you sometimes with the bits and pieces of his knowledge . ) |
| 22 | At the end of the Second World War , we could go it alone across the whole spectrum of military weapon systems from high-performance aircraft at one end to the simple automatic rifle at the other . |
| 23 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |
| 24 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |
| 25 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 26 | The discovery of even a few of these objects could tell us much about the early history of the Solar System , perhaps more than we would learn from the elusive ( or illusory ) Planet X. Gerald D. Quinlan is at the Lick Observatory , University of California , . |
| 27 | Even before you understand the words of a text you could play it sometimes for the sake of the intonation , as mentioned in ch. 2.1.1. of this book under the heading of LISTENING . |
| 28 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |
| 29 | You could say something here at the top of Rita 's point that . |
| 30 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |