Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 2 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 3 | There was no danger now , he could enjoy it to the full . |
| 4 | Using such stereotypes , one can then argue that the occult sciences of the Renaissance could contribute nothing to the new sciences of the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 6 | By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code . |
| 7 | If we could shrink ourselves to the atomic scale , we would see almost endless rows of atoms , stretching to the horizon in straight lines — galleries of geometric repetition . |