Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 González could deliver neither the central UGT demand of either full(ish) employment nor adequate welfare protection .
9 You could make up a whole story .
10 She could make just a small detour
11 And now it was out of its glass frame he could make out a faded signature at the bottom :
12 The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice .
13 I could make out a younger Conchis in the centre , wearing a straw hat and shorts , and there was one woman , a peasant-woman , though not Maria , because she was Maria 's age in the photo and it was plainly twenty or thirty years old .
14 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 .
15 All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person .
16 His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs .
17 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 .
18 From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry .
19 The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been .
20 Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path .
21 The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots .
22 Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees .
23 It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt .
24 As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees .
25 And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars .
26 Ahead of her , straight ahead , she could make out the grey hills on the far side of the estuary and to her right where the land first widened out and then melted away altogether , the sea flowed to the ocean , limitless , miles of moving , salty water .
27 So you know that , that as you know Richard said you know good idea , could make quite a few people , so I think Marcus , if , if Marcus chose that moment he , he really
28 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 .
29 Therefore , para. ( c ) could swallow up the other paragraphs .
30 The effective teacher of history was the person who could elicit clearly the moral messages to be gleaned from studying the lives of the great and the good ; the age demanded that this should be interpreted mainly within an imperial context with the emphasis upon citizenship and service .
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