Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you started from the insect , and jumped like a demented flea half a trillion times , you could expect to arrive at the fox once . |
| 2 | And of all fighters Hotspur could remember holding at the end of his own sword , this was the bonniest . |
| 3 | I could have stood at the window all afternoon , |
| 4 | It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday . |
| 5 | If the doorsteps could have curled at the edges , they would have done so . |
| 6 | She could have continued at the City Press , and he remained a policeman . |
| 7 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 8 | The whole place stank of money : much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club . |
| 9 | Shortly before the 1927 Cup final , a series of bars with a football tied to them was installed in the St John 's College training ground adjacent to the club , so that players could practise kicking at the bars and trapping the ball as it rebounded at awkward angles . |