Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That 's right , that 's right , yes , how we consume these products , yes , I mean , you 're right , so a potato is a potato is a potato , but if it 's pre-packed , graded and washed , that is sort of intrinsically different from er , er , sort of , mouldy , scruffy old potatoes that you could buy at a greengrocer . |
| 32 | Even forgetting the fact that the Cobra was the fastest accelerating car you could buy at the time , that only puts it between the £21,620 Elan SE and the entry level £26,400 Excel SE , close to the £22,363 Morgan plus eight and even closer to the £23,526 Toyota Supra Turbo . |
| 33 | If you could n't afford the original records , there were smaller ones you could buy at the Woolworths in the King 's Road , which sounded quite like . |
| 34 | You could say at the last he had his brother 's fibre , but it was manifested in fortitude instead of daring — which is a more admirable thing . |
| 35 | They were not all scandalous , though ; some were conventional love songs of the sort you could hear at the cinema or on the radio , if you had one . |
| 36 | Yes , you could mock at the idea , but that was n't enough to rid yourself of its insidious appeal , politely , persistently tugging at your soul . |
| 37 | Well these were the hottest place that you could work at the ovens of dough in the bread ovens . |
| 38 | You could look at the data , listen to the comments , then do some modelling yourself , add your own comments and then send it all back to them , on-line . ’ |
| 39 | their characters as theories ; ( You could look at the following : |
| 40 | We could do at the end of the lesson . |
| 41 | I discovered that with our video : we tape things we could watch at the time , just to prove , I suppose that video recorders are wonderful things . |
| 42 | Soaked with it and languid from the heat , with the scent of salt and sand still heavy in my nose , I asked if we could stop at the high slope of grass off Elderberry Road . |
| 43 | Cos that 's when , when , when we get to that nearer the date , we could , we could just , you know , when you 're confirmed that you 've been booked and you 're definitely going , erm we could look at the finances and see how much we could afford to , to give , erm , something to each person to help with , eit either with the accommodation or , or the transport . |
| 44 | Well we could put them all in the thing ca n't we ? all in the canned box , it 's lovely and we could put at the top no Pepsi can |
| 45 | We spent the first day climbing on Anglesey 's big sea cliffs to prove that we could climb at an extreme level . |
| 46 | It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination . |
| 47 | This did not surprise me , since one could see at a glance that Herr Bremann was a gentleman of great decency . |
| 48 | Floy had been surreptitiously trying to gather up stones which they could arrange at the roadside , perhaps in the form of an arrow for Fenella and Caspar . |
| 49 | They could laugh at the absurdities of life and people that made no sense to those who had n't lived in Ireland . |
| 50 | Massenga shot them before they could fire at the bulldozer . |
| 51 | To get this charter , Ayr had to demonstrate that they could manufacture at a ‘ landed cost ’ competitive with other Digital plants , particularly those in the Far East . |
| 52 | So that kind of thing made analysts think that they could go on more than just free associations , they could look at a person 's character , as it were . |
| 53 | They could look at the power station without the slightest premonition of disaster and the horror of the Whistler seemed as much beyond their interest as it was their comprehension . |
| 54 | It 's analysis of the egos as , as we 've been seeing , in analysis was really all , all it could do at the beginning , after the First World War , shall we say . |
| 55 | When it mattered , Leonard was a learner ; he could sit at a man 's feet and absorb completely . |
| 56 | He could stay at the Palm Springs home of Walter Annenberg , newspaper publisher , millionaire , friend of the Shah 's friend Richard Nixon , former ambassador tot he court of St James , Sullivan was told to convey the invitation in the name of the president and to ask how many people would be travelling with the Shah . |
| 57 | He marched out of the barracks to make his way to the station — he wondered how long it would be before he could walk at a normal pace . |
| 58 | Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level . |
| 59 | ‘ There was n't a thing he could do at the time , but he 's got his eye on them . ’ |
| 60 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |