Example sentences of "[pron] could [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I did n't join any of them I kept independent while I could at any rate and then . |
| 2 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 3 | I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus . |
| 4 | Could I I could from those statistics could n't I tho Or or have n't we sold anything to this year ? |
| 5 | ‘ as if I could in some way decide for those leaving us what they will go on to do . ’ |
| 6 | The Cuban revolution had provided the USSR with numerous technical facilities , especially electronic listening posts which could to some degree counteract similar American installations which had encircled the Soviet Union since 1945 . |
| 7 | It should be remembered that there are other provisions which could in certain circumstances prevent him from doing so ( see Chapter 5 above ) . |
| 8 | Is there anything of significance in your past which could in any way contribute to your present reactions in the face of conflict ? |
| 9 | She , meanwhile , devoted herself to selling as many of her husband 's works as she could to various publishers , including J. A. André of Offenbach am Main , and Breitkopf & Härtel of Leipzig . |
| 10 | Mrs Henry found out all she could about alternative cancer treatments and dabbled in some of them . |
| 11 | She needed to learn as much as she could about this area of mental disturbance . |
| 12 | An actual baby had awakened the baby inside herself ; she wanted less to be a mother than to have a baby , so that by feeding him she could in some way nourish herself . |
| 13 | He felt a sudden unwilling awe for this creature who could with such ease summon and bend to his will the terrible Stroicim Inchinn . |
| 14 | That will be a considerable relief to Mr Bond , who could in certain circumstances have seen his entire 35 per cent stake in BSB placed with the other equity participants , which include Granada , Pearson , Reed International and Chargeurs of France . |
| 15 | Yet , given the reality that a number of children were deprived and neglected and the shortage of sympathetic officials , who could in any case have done little about the causes of such deprivation , it is difficult to known what alternative measures were available . |
| 16 | In which case , what better , what other remedy than to push yourself as hard as you could towards all extremes to feel alive , but keep the centre inviolate ? |
| 17 | ‘ If I had n't known you could by last night , ’ she retorted , ‘ I 'd have got me a spare staff nurse even if it had meant taking this bloody hospital apart . |
| 18 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 19 | We could on this basis begin to question the lives of many people which we would subjectively consider to be less fulfilling than our own . |
| 20 | ‘ If we drove as hard as we could at that car coming towards us — ’ she began . |
| 21 | We could at that moment quite justifiably have concluded that the date of the bank was most probably in the early second century , like Verulamium , but we were saved from making this serious error by the presence in the trench of a small hearth immediately below the first load of rampart spoil . |
| 22 | I have no doubt that we could around that figure but the Chief Officer rightly believes and indeed Her Majesty 's Inspector rightly believes that we are operating too much technology most of the time . |
| 23 | The odds , as they well knew , were against them finishing even one tour , but war is a horrible business and we all had to do the best we could in discouraging circumstances . |
| 24 | We wanted to walk around as much of the coastline as we could in several hours . |
| 25 | I do not believe that we could in any event disclose the existence of the GEN groups . |
| 26 | There is also a yard where one could at one time sit and look at the adjacent buildings through the barbed wire . |
| 27 | Nor is there any need to risk being challenged by alternative social visions , to attend to the views of ‘ every crackpot messiah round the world ’ , since ‘ it matters very little what strange thoughts occur to people in Albania or Burkina Faso , for we are interested in what one could in some sense call the common ideological heritage of mankind ’ . |
| 28 | Reich 's use of ethnographic evidence is suspect , but in general terms it could be admitted that there could in Freudian theory be differences of the type which Reich pointed out , even if his evidence may not have been carefully formulated . |
| 29 | I think if you got taught sex education in maybe , smaller groups , you know erm if they could with individual teachers |
| 30 | The same procedure was adopted as for the immediate recall part of the experiment but words were used from set B. However , before the subject was allowed to recall the words an arbitrary three digit number , provided below the word list for each trial , was given to the subject and the subject asked to repeat the number and count backwards by threes as fast as they could for thirty seconds . |