Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The man spoke in German , so he could not understand , but of course he could see I was getting upset . |
| 2 | I could see he was doing that deliberately , out of embarrassment . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I could see he was doing that , ’ Claudine murmured sweetly . |
| 4 | she had fat knees in ginger stockings which kept straying apart … he could see she was wearing apricot knickers ; |
| 5 | Obviously I could tell I was getting pathetic , but surely I sounded completely under control as far as the director 's box was concerned ? |
| 6 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 7 | You could imagine you were prospecting some dark land and seeing camp fires , or signal fires , or fires that were the only known evidence of a hidden tribe . |
| 8 | If that really is the way the authorities are now thinking — and ‘ readers ’ letters ' have long been notoriously close to official thinking in East Germany — then the government could find it is courting unprecedented disaster . |