Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home . |
| 4 | The players could have played it without a conductor , we knew it so well at that time . |
| 5 | It could have turned us into a cinder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
| 8 | You could have sliced it with a spatula . |
| 9 | I could have directed you to a loch that is right by the side of the road where you would have caught nothing all day . ’ |
| 10 | Elaine could have left you on a doorstep , wrapped in a tea-towel . |
| 11 | It started with a piece of foolishness that could have got me into a deal of trouble had I not have had a wise check in time from the inspector . |
| 12 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 13 | I could have belted him with a bicycle chain . |
| 14 | Luke Hunter was the sort of man who rode roughshod over everyone else 's opinions — if she had been there alone she was sure she could have convinced them in a fraction of the time . |
| 15 | It were reasonable , quite re , er as a matter of fact we could afford to go on ho my father could afford to take us on a holiday every year . |
| 16 | You do not suppose that I could continue to employ you in a house where I have the welfare and character of two innocent children in my charge ? |