Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could 've heard a critic smile ! |
| 2 | If such consent is withheld , then the doctor could seek to have the child made a ward of court . |
| 3 | There is a story about the man who painted half his car black and the other half white so that if he was involved in an accident he could enjoy hearing the witnesses contradict each other . |
| 4 | Overall , however , students had a strong sense of duty to help China develop into a powerful , modern country , but they were uncertain as to how they could contribute given the constraints placed on them . |
| 5 | It seemed there was nothing he could do to persuade the child to cease her disobedience , nothing he could say which would frighten her sufficiently for her to come to her senses . |
| 6 | We asked ourselves what we could do to make the shops busy . |
| 7 | It produces a good number of peaches every August but the greenhouse is in desperate need of replacement and she does n't have to , want to have to put another one in that position so is there anything cheap , she says , that she could do to help the tree to survive and fruit in a large open garden in Preston in Lancashire without the greenhouse , Walter ? |
| 8 | Modem linkage for Dawyck will be needed within the next five years , and it may be that at that point we could decide to install a multiplexor to deal with all of our external computer links — use of local EUCS services , JANET , PSS , Royline and others . |
| 9 | If this is not practical , you could try cooking a chicken to eat cold over several days ; but once it is cooked , divide it up into the meal portions you require , and place them in the freezer or refrigerator as appropriate . |
| 10 | Nestlé Co. could have obtained an injunction restraining the sale of those tins and they required the buyers not to resell them without first removing the labels . |
| 11 | We could have searched the seas to see if Bartholomew had survived . ’ |
| 12 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 13 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 14 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | In dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal , Mr Justice Rattee said that the taxpayer could have made the returns accompanied by an indication that there were matters still outstanding which might affect the contents of the returns . |
| 16 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
| 17 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 18 | I could have kept the lip zippered . |
| 19 | A remedy was refused , the court holding that nothing the student could have said could have affected the decision reached . |
| 20 | This is the only possible way that the students could have answered the questions to agree with the information given . |
| 21 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 22 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 23 | Well you could have heard a pin drop . |
| 24 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 25 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 26 | You could have heard a pin drop . |
| 27 | ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road . |
| 28 | In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor . |
| 29 | THERE is no competition attached to the following remarks , mainly because it would be easy enough to cheat , but I would be glad to have any suggestions about the question that could have received the answer quoted . |
| 30 | WEATHER-beaten Constantinos Kaloude has one of those lived-in faces that could have seen the sun set on 30,000 different horizons . |