Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you feel very strongly that the background to the Unit 's formation needs to be set out , I could perhaps draft it in the form of an ( again brief ) annexe . |
| 2 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 3 | The world is littered with communities which believe that if they could only separate themselves from the world , they would escape the consequences of original sin . |
| 4 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 5 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 6 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 7 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 8 | Churchill , the First Sea Lord and England 's hero , could only describe it in the House on October 17 as ‘ a remarkable exploit of skill and daring ’ . |
| 9 | Planned tours aside , it 's just possible that all of the Brennan family could soon find themselves in the charts . |
| 10 | She walked alone in the silence , hearing her own muted footfalls like echoes of past or future , she could not distinguish one from the other . |
| 11 | She endured his lovemaking , sometimes she even enjoyed it , but for the greater part she could not love him in the way he truly deserved . |
| 12 | But Alexander could not hold it against the Edoni , local tribesmen , which may have given the Athenians the idea that they could move in and plant a colony ( 465 ) . |
| 13 | England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn . |
| 14 | My source tells me : ‘ The firemen were very helpful and attempted to remove the offending smoke sensor but could not isolate it from the system so the demonstration continued with shorter cooking times and lower temperatures to reduce the flames . |
| 15 | She could not avoid her in the nurses ' home dining-room that night , however . |
| 16 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 17 | She could not picture him behind the grim walls of Swansea Prison , instead she remembered him riding with her in the park , smiling down at her with his dark eyes , making her feel so small and helpless . |
| 18 | Most of the reinforcements could not inform me of the health of Colonel Vaughan , but they all had vivid recollections of the most unusual weather conditions in the Highlands , and at the moment regarded their situation here in Normandy as an improvement on Achnacarry . |
| 19 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 20 | The location of the offence can be proved by the officer in the case to show that the offender could not avail himself of the dwelling defence under section 5(2) and ( 3 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ We were told that we could not add anything to the pedestrian provision after the initial period . |
| 22 | He could not see me behind the curtains , and clearly did not expect an answer . |
| 23 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 24 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 25 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 26 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |
| 27 | He could not put them to the Committee and I look forward to seeing whether they can be put forward tonight . |
| 28 | We would have to hope for a Tory victory , but , because of the uncertainty about the outcome of the election , he could not put her on the waiting list . |
| 29 | Even the after effects could not keep him from the final . |
| 30 | He could not hear me above the din of the crowd . |