Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also fears that a genetic mutation — over which there could be no control — could suddenly produce a GEM with some nasty trick up its sleeve . |
| 2 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 3 | There are also signs that FTC could soon sign a deal with the rump of the Football League , those clubs left over after the formation of the new Premier League . |
| 4 | ‘ If shoppers had their wish , the region could soon see a revolution with empty shops but booming business . ’ |
| 5 | Geoffrey Chaucer could not hold a conversation with a modern Englishman , even though they are linked to each other by an unbroken chain of some twenty generations of Englishmen , each of whom could speak to his immediate neighbours in the chain as a son speaks to his father . |
| 6 | If Mr Major lost his majority and could not do a deal with another party , would he be entitled as Prime Minister to request a dissolution and a second election ? |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the TSR 2 was such an advanced and complex weapon system that British industry could not provide a firm with sufficient breadth of technological expertise to act as prime contractor . |
| 8 | Tarentaise and Dolomitan old-timers could not recall a winter with so much snow before Christmas . |
| 9 | And you could easily make a mistake with the work , you get all worked up . |
| 10 | After all , one could hardly describe an appointment with a can of paint and a roller as ‘ pressing ’ . |
| 11 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 12 | nice personalities but he could now do a runner with our van could n't they ? |
| 13 | ‘ Branford could immediately see a connection with us . |
| 14 | Supposing there were a heaven , I could n't stand an eternity with you . |
| 15 | Could n't make a lot with that , could I really ? |
| 16 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 17 | And then the women I did want to go to bed with , but could n't conduct a conversation with . ’ |
| 18 | You could n't hurt a fly with that thing . |
| 19 | I mean you could n't have a meeting with the whole Catholic Church for example to decide on doctrine . |
| 20 | ‘ I looked at the walls in the Goldie boathouse and saw the names of all the crews and could n't see a cox with three wins on the trot . |
| 21 | He could n't swot a fly with a rolled-up newspaper . ’ |
| 22 | ( It was a driver and it 's now mounted in Lyle Towers because after that he could n't hit a fairway with it ! ) |
| 23 | You could even cover a cone with macramé for a really exciting special flower holder . |
| 24 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 25 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 26 | If restretching is too daunting , you could either use a frame with sufficient rebate to hide the discrepancy or have a frame made which fits the canvas . |
| 27 | Yet no one in the West could seriously contemplate a war with Russia at this time . |
| 28 | It has to be said that this is a massive walk , particularly for you if you do n't know Ted , and you could certainly fill a day with only these two peaks . |
| 29 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |