Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something alarming in the way an eleven-year-old girl - or ‘ nearly twelve ’ as she kept saying — could so easily comport herself among a press of adults . |
| 2 | And with her jealousy came anger that he could so easily hold her in a close embrace while he still had Doreen in his system . |
| 3 | The South African domestic season thus finished with Eastern Province winning the Castle Cup ( four-Day and the night series ( 45 overs ) , and Free State the Nissan Shield ( 55 overs ) , Eastern Province were the beaten finalists in the latter competition and could thus justifiably regard themselves as South Africa 's champion team . |
| 4 | But even more secret , so secret that I could scarcely even admit it to myself , was my sense of inadequacy . |
| 5 | An amputee , she could not yet accustom herself to what was lost and gone , lost as her parents scattered in fragments over the Nevada desert . |
| 6 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 7 | My free wing hung from the pole for I could not easily close it without terrible pain ; my eyes were fixed on them . |
| 8 | She could not immediately do anything for Nina . |
| 9 | How could such a proud gentleman be so much in the power of one of his servants that he could not even punish her for trying to kill him ? |
| 10 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |
| 12 | But she could not really see herself with whatever it was : vase , or rug or necklace , trying to sell it . |
| 13 | A man not incapable of irony , Thorkel Fóstri , it seemed , could not necessarily detect it in somebody else . |
| 14 | He was certain that Scarlet would never behave so irrationally but could not quite rid himself of the image of the breakfast table . |
| 15 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 16 | My mother , quite properly , did not believe me , but as I was now clearly an adult , even if an unsatisfactory one , she could not directly accuse me of lying . |
| 17 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 18 | When Ferrar received it he read it over and over and kissed and embraced it , saying that he could not sufficiently admire it as a rich jewel , and most worthy to be in the hands and hearts of all true Christians that feared God and loved the Church of England . |
| 19 | Enter our simple competition and you could not only find yourself with the answer to all your bedroom storage needs , but also regain an extra , usable room . |
| 20 | He thought he could just about make it up the stairs . |
| 21 | This one could , it could just about reach it over its paw and flicked it up and knocked on the door |
| 22 | I could just about get mine on it . |
| 23 | She could more easily picture him in a Maserati . |
| 24 | You might say you could measure its position to ten decimal places , but you could always then measure it to eleven and predict a completely different result ; all the difference between a whirlwind which knocked down someone 's house and a single molecule of oxygen disappearing up their nose . |
| 25 | He could also still imitate anyone with whom he came into contact , although his days of giving his impressions of Winston Churchill or Nellie Wallace ( nobody would know who Nellie Wallace was in 1962 ) were by now over . |
| 26 | In fact you could n't adequately express yourself in English you were just better to shut up . |
| 27 | A lot of them , of course , were so secret that Mr Marr could n't even show them to me . |
| 28 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 29 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 30 | I could n't even manage it at Bury . |