Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reading of the effect of the " fabliau entelechy " on religious imagery can also be applied to what appears as a singularly stark , socially satirical statement in this tale , the concluding lines to the portrait of Alison : These could focus critically on the selfish pleasure-taking of lords with town " wenches " , whom yeomen of lower status have to wed . |
| 2 | At worst , one could fall back on the immediate family of brothers and cousins to protect the individual , if only by helping to pay up to meet the demands of the tax collector . |
| 3 | With him timing the lines , the star could concentrate just on the emotional truth of his acting , and the result was very powerful . |
| 4 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 5 | You could splash out on a kingsize Strata waterbed costing around £2,800 . |
| 6 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
| 7 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |