Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Zoshchenko could caricature them in the 1920s , but by the 1930s it became too dangerous to ridicule what had solidified into a standardized bureaucratic mode of oppression . |
2 | Now you could do it in the nineteen seventies and er well yes I would say from nineteen sixty eight onwards with plastic card and revolv , what 's called revolving credit . |
3 | Oh he could take us into the two thousand . |
4 | Perhaps if you wish to add questions , it might be helpful if you could circulate them amongst the 4 of us before the 26th . |
5 | 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 . |