Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 2 | ‘ You could only get in with a pass if you were a member of the project . |
| 3 | Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance . |
| 4 | Even the Commission , with all its enthusiasm for EMU , could only come up with a potential saving of between 0.1% and 0.5% of the Community 's GDP , and even this did not take into account new costs of changing the ecu into other , non-EC currencies . |
| 5 | The reduction in the real wage rate which was a necessary concomitant of a rise in unemployment could only come about through an expansion of aggregate demand . |
| 6 | TEESSIDE Polytechnic student Jonathan Welfare could soon clean up with an idea to rid the danger which dogs our footsteps . |
| 7 | The same realization came to the King , pushed towards his precipice by Hardinge harshly telling him that he could not go on without a decision . |
| 8 | It was burning , fraying at the edges , riddled with violent cancers of nationalism , spite and greed that could not go on without a climax for much longer . |
| 9 | Clearly she could not go out through a locked door — so where is she ? ’ |
| 10 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |
| 11 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 12 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 13 | In Jane 's case , she could not snap out of a lifetime of worry overnight . |
| 14 | However , he urged the Government to consider taking the ambulance staff 's pay permanently outside the political arena by setting up a pay review body for ambulance staff Mr Clarke replied the NHS could not end up in a situation whereby group after group took industrial action and were rewarded by arbitration bodies . |
| 15 | It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use . |
| 16 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |
| 17 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 18 | We could easily move on to a project exploring other aspects of Victorian England . |
| 19 | When it comes to pure techno — the real deal interplanetary Detroit descendant , that is — Britain could easily come out with a resounding ‘ nil points ’ in any metaphysical Eurovision Song contest . |
| 20 | If they start to moan at long , boring nights of inactivity , the bottom could quickly fall out of a tour that in cricketing terms has all the ingredients of being a huge success . |
| 21 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 22 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 23 | Fullback Marty Roebuck could also miss out as an ankle operation is likely to sideline him for six to seven weeks . |
| 24 | The Pezzetta starter deserves a good , ordinary Italian white wine to go with it , that could also double up as an apéritif . |
| 25 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 26 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |
| 27 | I 'd have roasted Matilda 's bottom for her so she could n't sit down for a month ! ’ |
| 28 | You could n't show up in a place like Adam 's Creek without a few questions being asked , Jed knew that , so he 'd dreamed up a story . |
| 29 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 30 | The only problem was convincing them they could n't follow up with a New Year 's knees-up a week later . |