Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
2 | ‘ After taking off from Bermuda , I thought I could catch up on some sleep . |
3 | You could team up with another artist , possibly one who works in a contrasting discipline or technique . |
4 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
5 | The tigress is quick to surface when your young are threatened and I could face up to any bully to defend my own . |
6 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
7 | There 's no way any of us could walk out of this station in uniform . |
8 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
9 | the reasons I said I I I I could go along with that approach as well . |
10 | I wonder if I could go back to that point that er a couple of you raised this morning , about the transfer assets into the wife 's name . |
11 | Well , they used to do them at fourpence ha'penny a pair , and each one must be put in a big envelope , so as it could go out on this catalogue business . |
12 | Given the right conditions they could flare up at any time . |
13 | Well what I what I did here , to work it out so I could come up to some sort of value , is I said I have n't had time to chuck these back on the screen yet to start again |
14 | Alright , so you have only one , but by all he ( by the sound of it ) knows , a mate could come along at any time . |
15 | The remaining things she could come back for any day . |
16 | It was impossible to believe that anything clean and new and mechanically efficient could come out of this place . |
17 | For countless generations man could get by without such insight because the automatic , unconscious defensive measures of the primitive ego were effective . |
18 | Country churches were never locked ; you could wander in at any time . |
19 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
20 | Banned from the dressingroom areas and the touchline , he could turn up in any number of disguises from hot-pie salesman to unhelpful steward . |