Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe we could build up the parliamentary group to more than 100 members . ’ |
| 6 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 7 | And now it was out of its glass frame he could make out a faded signature at the bottom : |
| 8 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 12 | His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Therefore , para. ( c ) could swallow up the other paragraphs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I could buy up the whole block . |
| 26 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We could hang up a few politicians too. , ‘ There 's that farmer who used a plough with horses . |
| 29 | A die could survive over a long period of time . |
| 30 | Perhaps you could lighten up a little bit . ’ |