Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 4 | He could not put them to the Committee and I look forward to seeing whether they can be put forward tonight . |
| 5 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 6 | If you could just get me to the nearest station — ’ |
| 7 | You could al you could always take her to the dent , is the other tooth in front of it or behind it ? |
| 8 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 9 | Their faces had been beaten off to make sure nobody could later link them to a concentration camp , or even their homes , in Germany . |
| 10 | Ah mind you he could probably sell it to the TV companies for about that I should think . |
| 11 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 12 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 13 | He explained he was having a dizzy spell and could n't make it to the doctor 's , so I drove him there . |
| 14 | He could n't throw him to the wolves of his colleagues at the Factory . |
| 15 | But I could n't get her to the doctor , she would n't go . |
| 16 | It 's a mighty brew , and it 's a sound which could well carry them to a much higher level of success , if that 's what they want . |
| 17 | The combination of the words and the music of this hymn could unfailingly elevate her to a state of rapt and ferocious ambition and desire ; she pictured , even at a most tender age , not the pearly gates and crystal walls and golden towers of some heavenly city , but some truly terrestrial paradise , where beautiful people in beautiful houses spoke of beautiful things . |
| 18 | I 'd swap my vest and plasters for a Marks and Spencer circle-stitched bra , a rigid , pointed contraption that made me look as if I had a couple of ice-cream cones up my jumper : I could never fill them to the end ( not even on a good day ) and the last waltz would result in dents in the ends . |