Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she could stay just the one night , then look for something cheaper in the morning . |
| 2 | Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later . |
| 3 | But one day she asked if she could stay out the whole day , and away she went on her little pony , with her two dogs running behind . |
| 4 | Changes in stratospheric water vapour due to changes in methane and stratosphere-troposphere exchange could affect both the radiative budget and the temperature of PSC formation . |
| 5 | Perhaps over the generations the interaction between a particular cultural context and the energy pattern at a place could build up a strong image or archetype . |
| 6 | Like animals , they are great levellers — not remotely impressed by a string of titles — and he always found he could build up a good rapport with them . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe we could build up the parliamentary group to more than 100 members . ’ |
| 8 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 9 | She could make just a small detour … |
| 10 | And now it was out of its glass frame he could make out a faded signature at the bottom : |
| 11 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 12 | All the internal doors were open and she could make out the tumbled travel bags she had left half-packed and which now spilled their contents across the room . |
| 13 | Their vision was by now more adapted to the darkness , and silhouetted against the glow of the fires , they could make out the black bulk of the castle . |
| 14 | From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry . |
| 15 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |
| 16 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 17 | I suspect part of the reason behind the council buying the ground in 1983 ? was so they could knock down the old rugby league stadium . |
| 18 | I could buy up the whole block . |
| 19 | With the selection of some anti-O'Neill candidates in the 1970 Stormont elections and the Westminster elections of the same year , the conservatives sensed that they could win back the Unionist Party machine . |
| 20 | A die could survive over a long period of time . |
| 21 | These olives — their trunks warped , gouged , carbuncled , abrasive to the touch — seem indestructible , as if they could survive even a nuclear winter . |
| 22 | After the fiasco with Mortimer it just was n't possible that this … this insulting individual could arouse even the slightest flicker of response in her , was it ? |
| 23 | Perhaps you could lighten up a little bit . ’ |
| 24 | Then she retreated in bleak anguish to her bedroom , and sat hunched in the window-seat , looking out over the soft rolling lawns and distant Cotswold hills , dimly aware that her single most painful desire was that her mother were still alive , so she could pour out the secret desolation to the one person who 'd have understood … |
| 25 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 26 | And because one would share with neighbours , it was rather spaced out so that people could benefit over a longer period . |
| 27 | CAUTION — make sure you get the ball and not the player , or you could give away a free kick ! |
| 28 | All too easily they feared , a recce might leave traces of the visit which , even if the lone navigator was not captured , could give away the intended landing point for an assault force . |
| 29 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 30 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |