Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could only hope that Father Christmas had one up his sleeve for me ! |
| 2 | The man could n't believe it and could only stare as Uncle Mick got up and marched triumphantly up towards Denis and the exit stair . |
| 3 | After the minister 's almost tender observation that ‘ the process of forming a humanistic and harmonious world outlook was now upon us ’ , one could only gape as Reesa Greenberg , from Montreal 's Concordia University , delivered an astonishing plea , entirely in earnest , that museums engage a new art audience in shopping malls . |
| 4 | But the mercury content of the sediment could soon improve if Liverpool Bay follows the pattern of the Manchester Ship canal , where there already been a significant decrease and a corresponding decline of mercury in the estuary 's surface sediment . |
| 5 | Therefore we could not confirm that airway growth is more vulnerable than peripheral lung growth in low birth-weight children as Chan et al showed . |
| 6 | An RUC spokesman said he could not confirm that police officers involved had not been suspended . |
| 7 | They could not agree if Mr Lamont had made life easier for the motorist — presently snapping up more new cars than last year — or not . |
| 8 | Still the 29-year-old could not celebrate because Anders Forsbrand closed with five straight birdies for a 65 which tied the 29-year-old Englishman on 271 . |
| 9 | Pete could hardly wait until Mr Bennet came back . |
| 10 | She could also see that Pete McCarthy and his waitress had just arrived . |
| 11 | Of course , it could simply mean that winter foetuses might not get the same diet as others . |
| 12 | There 's nothing wrong with a man living under an assumed name and besides that , I could n't prove that Mr Broadhurst and Samuel Northcliffe were one and the same , any more than I could prove that it was The Fat Controller who had killed the woman at the Theatre Royal with a spring-loaded hypodermic full of curare , rather than anyone else . |
| 13 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 14 | The men guilty of these outrages did not even have the excuse of their European counterparts , who could sometimes claim that wartime bombing had flattened the great stations which they were replacing . |