Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these hot summer months prudent Japanese girls suppress the potential faux pas of erect nipples that could spring up from a cool blast of the air-conditioner by sticking on a handy pair of ‘ Nipples ’ . |
| 2 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 3 | But he could cash in with a lucrative return against the 24-year-old German early next year . |
| 4 | So it was ‘ all change ’ on Pig Street : Solomon Mead replaced Elizabeth Titford in the little dwelling house which had served the Titford family so well over the years , and Thomas Tuck began to see what kind of commercial success he could make out of the vacated butcher and chandler 's shop next door . |
| 5 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |
| 6 | Dexter pressed his nose against the grid of cold metal but all he could make out in the shadowy interior was a counter and the shimmer of clothes hung up in plastic bags . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 9 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 10 | The girls bringing in the parcel could dress up like the bridegroom-to-be , taking his work or hobby as the theme , or like any male characters such as footballers , policemen or policewomen wearing sunglasses , gorillas with cigars , city gents in bowler hats , or a spoof pop group of boys in short trousers and caps singing , ‘ Will you still need me when I 'm sixty-four ? ’ . |
| 11 | He said then he , we could carry on with the serious stuff ! |
| 12 | Senior officials could carry on with the day-to-day business of the state without concerning themselves with any kind of specialist ministerial control . |
| 13 | It would be logical to expect an author to cite his thesis in his first related paper , so that readers could refer back to the original source . |
| 14 | Even then the older amongst them could look back to the early 1790s when debate about , and the practice of , abstention from slave-grown colonial sugar was claimed by Clarkson to have drawn in about 300,000 families . |
| 15 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 16 | He pulled up and we could look down through the grey cloud-mist to the centre of the village where an old stone bridge and several houses were crumbling into the river . |
| 17 | It was a worry when we did n't get a pension and when it did come , it alleviated things , but we know it could run out in the New Year . |
| 18 | Perhaps he could run back into the Romano-British Collection , gibbering . |
| 19 | There was no key in the lock , so he could see in through the big old-fashioned key-hole . |
| 20 | From this room she could see out through a wide window into a dense stand of woodland , which seemed to crowd together , not quite hiding a track leading to a small cave . |
| 21 | The window was barred although it was possible to reach through and open the casement He preferred to sit there because in better weather he could see out into the Inner Ward and the White Tower . |
| 22 | When puppies for research were raised in isolation in laboratory , it was noticed that the ill-effects of such rearing could be somewhat offset by cutting a window into the side of their box so that they could see out into the busy laboratory . |
| 23 | You could splash out on a kingsize Strata waterbed costing around £2,800 . |
| 24 | Basic Stable Management , is designed as an introductory course and students could follow on to the Senior Horsemaster Course 1 and then onto the Senior Horsemasters Course 2 which is an equivalent level of study to the BHS Stage IV . |
| 25 | I do n't think yo I think you may be right but I do n't think I could keep up with the different kind of hairstyles ! |
| 26 | But not even a full-time repair unit could keep up with the constant breaching of the fencing . |
| 27 | She felt as if she could float up into the starry night . |
| 28 | Heston 's the only man who could drop out of a cubic moon — he 's so square [ very hip talk for 1964 ! ] . |
| 29 | Nothing and no one could measure up to the beautiful goodness , attractive goodness she saw in its ideal perfection in Jesus Christ . |
| 30 | Feminist psychology tries to get round women 's occasional lower scores on such traits by suggesting how , with the right experience and environment , they could measure up to the male-oriented norms . |