Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pers pn] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could smell it from the far side of the room through its Father Christmas wrapping paper . |
| 2 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 3 | But Ranulf was here and while Corbett bathed and changed his clothing , he wondered how Ranulf could protect him from the secret assassins now stalking him . |
| 4 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 5 | They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side : anyone could unlock them from the other side . |