Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [pers pn] in 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She could not avoid her in the nurses ' home dining-room that night , however . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
| 8 | A proliferation of pentecostal and evangelical sects , and the success of the Salvation Army ( founded in 1878 ) seemed to show that though the masses could still be moved by religious fervour , they could not find it in the established churches . |
| 9 | I could not look him in the eyes . |
| 10 | The fact that the Superintendent could not look her in the eye was not lost on Kate . |
| 11 | So she had stayed in and got the dinner prepared early , she could just shove it in the oven and it would look after itself . |
| 12 | ‘ I could hardly leave you in the condition I found you . |
| 13 | ‘ She never mentioned my having got stuck here as well , but I could hardly look her in the face . |
| 14 | You could still have it in the morning , ’ McQuaid said . |
| 15 | Most days they were invisible behind low cloud , but if Martha could not see them she could always feel them in the cold fury of the river and the eddying downdraughts of chill air which occasionally penetrated the valley . |
| 16 | Apart from the shame of being kept in like a naughty schoolboy , the constant automatic repetition of the lines taken out of the context of the play could often lodge them in the leakiest actor 's mind . |
| 17 | My mum could n't stand it in the end she sa let's get back to bomb there ! |
| 18 | She could n't decipher it in the pitch black . |
| 19 | Hick , speaking as the England squad completed its pre-Indian tour preparations at Lilleshall yesterday , added : ‘ I wanted to know why my form in the one-day internationals was good , while I could n't do it in the Tests . |
| 20 | I could n't kick him in the teeth after three years of good work and live with myself . |
| 21 | And when I er went to go on me own er I still wanted to keep in the union and I went down the Locksmiths ' union , which was in the market place , and they said they er we could n't , we could n't have you in the union if you go on your own erm there 's another denomination or something , was something that you 'd have to join or something like that and be on your own . |
| 22 | I could n't point you in the right direction immediately you 'd have to sort of |
| 23 | Well you could n't put them in the car could you ? |
| 24 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 25 | And er they could n't bury her in the in the Kirkyard . |
| 26 | I would n't have minded but I could n't get it in the hole after that . |
| 27 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |
| 28 | Pauline 's is very nice where they live , Michael does n't bother taking his in , cos it 's the gap , well they could n't get it in the |
| 29 | She could n't look him in the face any more . |
| 30 | You could even sense it in the village , ever since those two kids had been drowned ; business was running as usual , but the spirit of the place somehow was n't quite the same . |