Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Servant of Yahweh , Jesus treads the path of suffering and obedience right the way to Calvary : so much so that Peter could describe his suffering and death in terms culled from the famous prophecy of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah : |
| 2 | On July 27 , 100 deputies and senators from the Solidarity Centre Alliance had petitioned Jaruzelski to stand down so that Walesa could be named President in his place . |
| 3 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 4 | Molly Pearce , the helpful spinster with her eye on Maurice ; she fitted so exactly that Wycliffe could scarcely believe his luck . |
| 5 | ‘ Hallo ? ’ he repeated , rather louder than necessary and so carefully that Hugh could hear the vowels tinkling into place . |
| 6 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 7 | It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see . |
| 8 | But the baby , so far as Wendy could see , was in good order , firm of limb , bright of eye , smooth of skin and , once released from its wrapping , extremely lively . |
| 9 | Well laid out , so far as Newman could see while she made the tea . |
| 10 | ‘ The Mamur Zapt ? ’ said Suleiman , surprised but , so far as Owen could tell , not disconcerted . |
| 11 | So far as Bragg could see , the man had clearly been killed by a crushing blow to the head . |
| 12 | Zelah was a cross to be borne more or less cheerfully and Helen could handle her , when necessary , by being devastatingly blunt . |
| 13 | Waiters ran around from table to table , shouting to each other and to the customers , so fast that Shelley could n't catch what was going on . |
| 14 | She groaned and turned over , hoping she would fall asleep again , but her brain insisted on relaying pictures of her twin , so vividly that Dana could have been in the same room . |
| 15 | He had changed the subjet so adroitly that Juliet could only stare at him . |
| 16 | ‘ A pity , ’ Bruce murmured so quietly that Corbett could hardly hear him . |
| 17 | It was not enough that God could have done what Aristotle had deemed impossible . |
| 18 | Well , if so , not so that Alice could take it in . |
| 19 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 20 | Maybe the Emp was further away than Biff could imagine . |
| 21 | He held the mirror up so that Lucien could see into it . |
| 22 | For as long as Ruth could remember , huge red roses had sprawled across the kitchen walls , fading gradually to a sandy brown against the yellowed background . |
| 23 | It had hung in Maggie 's bedroom for as long as Phoebe could remember : she had not looked at it properly for years . |
| 24 | Each month , for as long as Peter could remember , she had gone through the bank statement and done the accounts . |
| 25 | His hair had been white for as long as Burun could remember , but this was the first time his age had seemed to affect his behaviour . |
| 26 | Lizzie Stroud had been Great-Aunt Alicia 's maid for as long as Sara could remember . |
| 27 | He opened a white-painted door with a stained glass transom window above it , then stood back so that Belinda could enter first . |
| 28 | Because , as far as Juliet could see , there were two ways in which Donna could have received her AB blood group . |
| 29 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |
| 30 | As far as Trent could see , there was no reason at all . |