Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped being a dream and began to be what I pretended could really happen . ’ |
| 2 | Well no not so much that but , but I 'm not , I 'm not sure that other lady , the one whose baby was born just after er before Becky you see and I thought could just imagine her being saying going and saying something and getting , it getting moulded a different way , you know ? |
| 3 | The case , brief and obscure though it is , might well have provided a basis upon which judges could later have built to develop a principle that money demanded ultra vires by a public authority was prima facie recoverable . |
| 4 | Only one shadow lay over Sally 's life , a secret shadow that none of the luxuries she enjoyed could quite banish . |
| 5 | We 've picked some of the best utilities that we believe could still find a place on your hard disk , even once you 've got MS-DOS installed there . |
| 6 | Nothing we feel could ever overcome that . |
| 7 | During the strike , there were allegations that the police used binding-over orders in cases which they knew could never result in convictions but in which they wanted to avail themselves of the opportunity for the imposition of bail conditions which they knew such a charge would give them ( Christian , 1985 : 133 ) . |
| 8 | The main reason that I was allowed to do the research was , I learned later , because their press was so bad the Moonies could not believe that someone who would listen to what they said could possibly come up with worse stories than those already in the media . |
| 9 | As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it . |
| 10 | Members of the National Front , the opposition the Shah had crushed in the fifties and ignored ever since , leftists , rightists , monarchists , republicans , dentists , doctors , lawyers — almost anyone it seems could finally get into see His Imperial Majesty . |
| 11 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 12 | Mr Goodwin then phoned the company to check his facts , and it took out an injunction to prevent his publishers , Morgan Grampian , publishing the information — which it said could severely damage confidence among customers and suppliers . |
| 13 | But a better understanding of how it works could also shed light on other questions concerned with the development of sensory nerve cells . |