Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 2 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |
| 3 | Now I though he would have hysterics ; he could not get down on the ground quick enough to carry this action out . |
| 4 | If the quality of bottom-up information was good , the algorithm could quickly home in on the correct sequence of words . |
| 5 | If we ca n't see anything more unusual suppose we could always fall back on the bubble baths or the anyway I think that 's a bit more than but there you go . |
| 6 | George Bush could now cash in on the country 's post-war confidence by launching another war on the black home-front . |
| 7 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 8 | He could n't go on the corkscrew he could n't go up on the ship he could n't go on anything . |
| 9 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 10 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 11 | ‘ Screens were erected , so that although boys and girls could see each other , they could n't climb out on the same side . |
| 12 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 13 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |