Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 2 | We could spin round at the Lurgan turn-off if you 're furious , I could take you back to Moira ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There was a time when we could look around at the Commonwealth , the Empire , other countries and we would see very soft markets for British exports . |
| 4 | He said it abruptly , his body twisted round so that he could look back at the hotel . |
| 5 | ‘ Would you care for a bit of supper , and then we could look in at the Area Ball . |
| 6 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 7 | He could call in at the Informer office in Chancery Lane and use the telephone to arrange a suitably stimulating lunch . |
| 8 | it 's a kind of thing that I think could be put and take and people could pick up at the box office |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I could cut through some of the stitching and we could get in at the bottom , ’ said Masklin . |