Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family of four slept on through what could have been a tragedy in this farmhouse near Thame . |
| 2 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |
| 3 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 4 | it 's a pity cos I mean if we put , if , if Billy went away on I could use it |
| 5 | There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were . |
| 6 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 7 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 8 | Only a woman can understand what 's wrong , and there 's nothing any of you could do . |
| 9 | And the god , speaking in his high falsetto voice through the medium of the dhāmi , said without a moment 's hesitation that Kalchu 's bull 's time had come , and there was nothing any of us could do to save it now . |
| 10 | The mother is very upset , more over what could have happened . |
| 11 | It is not surprising , therefore , that the main thrust of the anti timber-frame publicity has concentrated more on what could happen , rather than on what has actually happened . |
| 12 | But looking at some still pictures of it I reckon I made a mistake early on which could have denied ‘ Obbo ’ of scoring a more orthodox try . |
| 13 | They should be er both of them could have put that all in black . |
| 14 | From various tables near by she could hear a handful of languages being spoken : English , Italian , Malti , even Arabic . |
| 15 | Immobile in his throne on Earth , that godly paragon who was so old that his personal name had long been forgotten both beamed out a beacon and sensed the flow of Chaos , through which his starships must swim and out of which could congeal … abominations . |
| 16 | Some of the things she comes out with I could tell you . |
| 17 | A recurrent criticism of historical approaches in physical geography up to the 1950s was that they had insufficient knowledge of environmental processes to fall back upon which could enhance the understanding of landscape . |
| 18 | But as the plane taxied along the runway at Praia airport and I looked out on what could have been a simulated view from a lunar module , I sensed how daunting the task would be . |
| 19 | I thought if you went up and yo and yo we , you went back down you could keep your higher class . |
| 20 | There seemed no limit now to what could go wrong ; panic welled up in her at the least excuse . |
| 21 | Do n't upset the cos we 'll be back at you could toss a coin in under there . |
| 22 | As far at I could judge it , the general feeling among the present day staff is that there have been some gains to both the prisoners and the system , and some losses , but the gains have been bought dearly and slowly and the losses may be irreversible . |
| 23 | When I went first he took one out there and he took it out clean , but this one here , in actual fact he gave me a stitch , and when the stitch was n't in you could see the tooth protruding a bit . |
| 24 | The investigation he 'd instigated would , by its nature and scope , prove far more efficient than anything either of them could do alone or in tandem . |
| 25 | Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin . |