Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents could only afford to give me some small change on Sundays , but it was enough for a cinema ticket and an ice cream . |
| 2 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 3 | And afterwards — no-one could possibly have heard her own conversation with Dominic . |
| 4 | The rampant inflation that followed Henry VIII 's currency speculations and which his successors could hardly limit hit them most of all . |
| 5 | Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ? |
| 6 | A Conservative government had emerged that the Liberty and Property Defence League could well have called its own , but as a consequence it was a government that had very little to do with Conservatism . |