Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just think , ’ he told her , ‘ you could treat yourself to a trip down Bond Street and splurge on a few trinkets and some new clothes for your wardrobe . ’ |
| 2 | If the deceased was prone to depression , the court could treat it as an example of the egg shell skull rule . |
| 3 | I mean you could be laying in bed , which are downstairs , and someone could throw summat through a window . |
| 4 | A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy . |
| 5 | but even then we could have consignment stock here in effect cos they 're only forty minutes away , we could throw 'em in the back of the car and have 'em delivered . |
| 6 | ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae . |
| 7 | I do n't like to blow my own trumpet but My Better Half could eat it to a band playing . |
| 8 | The treatment can offset some effects of menopause , including brittle bone disease — osteoporosis — but the study reveals that the wrong kind of HRT could expose them to the risk of womb cancer . |
| 9 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 10 | Because every time someone screws they could make something with a will to live . |
| 11 | I saw a couple of people with TV cameras ; Tony had persuaded some cameramen to film the Benefit for free so he could make it into a video afterwards . |
| 12 | Or you could make it into a picture for a baby or toddler to hang on their bedroom wall . |
| 13 | Or I could make it into a puppet . |
| 14 | Leonora watched him go with mixed feelings , not really sure she could make it to the bathroom alone , despite her fine words . |
| 15 | ‘ You could make it to the end now , and I 'll tell old Sam you 've done a length . ’ |
| 16 | With fifteen laps to go , the race was his : if he could make it to the end . |
| 17 | She sincerely hoped that she could make it to the track before any car came because she knew exactly what a mess she looked . |
| 18 | If we could make it through the torrent to the bend ahead … |
| 19 | ‘ That was when I knew he could make it in the bigtime , ’ he says . |
| 20 | I reckoned I could blackmail him into a job . |
| 21 | Erm , clearly we 've got enough op , it would seem that if we could recruit somebody for the rest of this year , and er which would help us get our times down , if in if in fact we were able to recruit somebody who was instantly productive , which is not all that likely . |
| 22 | At my mother 's I could dry it in the garden . |
| 23 | a derivative of it , which gave you the same high that ecstasy does and er , and if you did n't it from the doctor you could buy it on the street . |
| 24 | You could buy it in a penny packet bloody great |
| 25 | Home Office officials are keen to watch the progress of these schemes and in future could include them as a qualification for senior police posts . |
| 26 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 27 | ‘ My office sought to arrange an interview with the Secretary of State for Employment so I could brief her on the situation . |
| 28 | This chapter examines reasons for using video in language teaching and considers when and how we could introduce it into the syllabus and into the lesson . |
| 29 | We could introduce it for a trial period , we could |
| 30 | I thought we could hang something on the fact that one of the most enduring sexual icons of the age was in fact what today would be called — uh — big . ’ |