Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament . |
| 2 | This was a relief as his coughing at night had irritated us , and it meant that Alex could stop hitting him with a broom handle when he woke us up . |
| 3 | As a learner from experience you could decide to view it as a learning opportunity and start to experiment with different ways of running the meeting . |
| 4 | I will try to contact you by telephone , but if I do not manage it , I would be grateful if you could try to ring me on the above number , extension 4425 . |
| 5 | I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home . |
| 6 | One could try to approach it with the notion of spheres of competence . |
| 7 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 8 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 9 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 10 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 11 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 12 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 13 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 14 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 15 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 16 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 17 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 18 | Could have done it from the front . |
| 19 | I was mad with him , could have battered him into the ground I could if I was strong enough . ’ |
| 20 | The players could have played it without a conductor , we knew it so well at that time . |
| 21 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 22 | Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning . |
| 23 | any , any other sort of mouse I could have brought me mouse with me and we could have run it off the serial port erm it 's a pain that Amstrad mouse . |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’ |
| 25 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
| 26 | But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ? |
| 27 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |
| 28 | It could have turned us into a cinder . |
| 29 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 30 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |