Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [pers pn] to the " 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 | He could not put them to the Committee and I look forward to seeing whether they can be put forward tonight . |
| 4 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 5 | If you could just get me to the nearest station — ’ |
| 6 | You could al you could always take her to the dent , is the other tooth in front of it or behind it ? |
| 7 | Ah mind you he could probably sell it to the TV companies for about that I should think . |
| 8 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 9 | He explained he was having a dizzy spell and could n't make it to the doctor 's , so I drove him there . |
| 10 | He could n't throw him to the wolves of his colleagues at the Factory . |
| 11 | But I could n't get her to the doctor , she would n't go . |
| 12 | 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 . |