Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 2 | You always had a few explanations for why something did something and you could never pick out which — why it did it … you could explain it in several ways , and it just was n't positive enough for me . |
| 3 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 4 | You could regard it as that part of the personality which is contr in control of voluntary thought and movement . |
| 5 | ‘ I could give it to another paper instead , could n't I ? ’ |
| 6 | leaving it and then going back to it to see if you could integrate it plus some graphs . |
| 7 | She was up in arms , riled by his easy assurance , his certainty that he could manipulate her like some puppet . |
| 8 | Maybe you could present it to those workmen . |
| 9 | one of our serious of the year , we should er extend that debate er we could extend as late perhaps half past one for lunch or we could bring it to half way between half past one , so the feeling in respect of that |
| 10 | His sideways glance told her he 'd noticed the manoeuvre but he merely smiled as if , knowing he could curtail it at any time , he was allowing her that small freedom . |
| 11 | I could beat you along that line if I liked . |
| 12 | Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure . |
| 13 | No we could , we could do it for all jobs cos |
| 14 | we could do it for all jobs , and see , that 's what I saying , I mean , we 've got |
| 15 | Word reached Peter Wheeler , the Leicester coach , of a young lad at Wakefield , a full-back , a slick-running full-back at that , who not only could kerplonk the ball like a metronome between the posts but could do it with either foot . |
| 16 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 17 | And he could do it in less time . |
| 18 | For example , if it was important to distinguish between a high level and low level tone for English we could do it in this way : |
| 19 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 20 | because the editor picks it up and say ‘ I can use that because I can see an angle , I could use it in this way or that way or , |
| 21 | If you could provide me with some paper . |
| 22 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe we could suspend them from this bit in the middle with a length of thread , ’ Norris grunted , sticking his head almost right inside the appliance . |
| 24 | Then I could keep it for many months . |
| 25 | How could gas companies give any guarantees to gas suppliers , especially on gas volume , if their customers could by-pass them at any time ? |
| 26 | It 's like all good things to come , I do n't like to count my chickens , so I 'd rather not , not the little memorandums say , oh you 've got another X million , if only we could take them in this year . |
| 27 | For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was . |
| 28 | I know there 's lads get eggs and butter and stuff from the farms , but everybody has n't got farms , and I could take you to some cottages that are well supplied with butter , sugar and cheese and what have you , that 's not from the farms . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I could take you to this Hotel Ritz you have spoken of , ’ he suggested . |
| 30 | so we could take it from that stage even |