Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith somehow got back to clear Stuart Rimmer 's shot off the line after the Quakers ' new style offside trap was sprung by Paul Comstive , and Mark Prudhoe could only head the ball to the forward 's feet . |
| 2 | Cantona and his colleagues should hand their Boxing Day bonus to Lee Sharpe , who could finally unlock the door to the Championship after 26 years . |
| 3 | Thus in Smith v Hughes ( 1871 ) LR 6 QB 597 , it was held that the seller of oats could not hold the buyer to the contract of sale if the seller was aware that the buyer was intending to accept an offer to sell oats warranted to be old , where , in fact , the seller was not intending to give any such warranty . |
| 4 | The pilot stated that as the aircraft rose above the treeline , at about 150 feet above the ground it involuntarily banked to the right , and despite maintaining the climb speed he could not prevent the roll to the right — which continued past ninety degrees of bank . |
| 5 | Lagan Valley finished last and , despite beating RUC in the last meeting , could not avoid the drop to division two . |
| 6 | One other man , a Henry W. Harris , a railway official , went to his rescue , and succeeded in reaching the drowning swimmer , but got into difficulties himself and could not bring the other to the shore . |
| 7 | Farmers were confident that if they sold to the Commission there would be no great rush of Germans to buy it , and the Commission could not sell the land to the Poles . |
| 8 | The Vice-Chancellor held that , the opposite party not in fact consenting , the solicitor could not disclose the document to the Customs and Excise without committing a contempt of court unless the undertaking was varied by the court : see p. 976G . |
| 9 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |
| 10 | Well after a while the bricks got hot enough that you could just adjust the valve to where the stove would get almost cherry red and it was a very nice fire . |
| 11 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 12 | But then the screen went dead : she could n't imagine the end to that scene . |
| 13 | He found he could n't pursue the thought to its proper conclusion . |
| 14 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 15 | He could n't find the answer to the girl 's death . |
| 16 | erm we excluded all the superficial ones that had solid because it was insufficient er one patient we could n't get the stain to work . |
| 17 | What was your thought of Friar Lawrence could n't get the letter to Romeo ? |
| 18 | ‘ They wanted a load of scantily clad models in it , ’ mocks Salli , ‘ but we could n't run the budget to it . |
| 19 | Langhorne was an impossible , fiercely dangerous dirt track , practically round , full of ruts ; hot and unprotected , but Mario — as he often liked to point out — had n't been born with a silver spoon in his mouth ; he could n't afford the fare to Europe ; meanwhile , while dreaming of his grand prix heroes , he 'd just have to be better than anybody else at what was available . |
| 20 | As is already happening in electrochemical technology , the provision of product packages , backed by technical expertise and know-how , could well point the way to the future . |
| 21 | But to hear now that That Woman was living in the Dower House , the very woman on whose account his mother had been incarcerated there , filled him with such distress that he could barely find the strength to be civil . |
| 22 | a lot of them were too complicated for me to explain to you but I mean I appreciated the the miracle of it all , like they could actually take the thing to pieces |