Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was confident that she could make her mark on the Rummidge Department in three years . |
| 2 | At one level , he finally found a spiritual home , a sanctuary from which he could vent his spleen on the oppressive bourgeois institutions which had duped him . |
| 3 | He had suggested she take up Jessica 's constant offer , considered she could do her revision on the beach or wherever , had smiled comfortably at her half-serious suggestion that Jessica might ‘ lead her astray ’ , or at least have a good go at it . |
| 4 | ERIC PETERS inspired Cambridge to a remarkable Twickenham triumph with a display that could book his place on the England squad plane to Lanzarote on December 31 . |
| 5 | But we could take my mother on the other one . |
| 6 | The hall light was still on and he put his ear to the letter box ; he could hear her voice on the telephone but could not distinguish her words . |
| 7 | Philip could hear his Mum on the phone . |
| 8 | They could fix their eye on the old enmity with Turkey ; but that was manifestly leading nowhere . |
| 9 | Forties more like — you could put your pension on the forties . ’ |
| 10 | At the same time , there was the paradox of a growing lordly authority among the stronger thegns who could impose their will on the rival groups . |
| 11 | If I could get my hand on the dirty little tyke who wrote it — ‘ |
| 12 | wearing a crash helmet and erm a buoyancy jacket , cos if you fell in you could hit your head on the rocks . |
| 13 | If only she could turn her back on the golden Dane whose gaze still ensnared her , lose herself in the masses and find her own way back to the hotel , but she was held where she stood by invisible chains . |