Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlord had obviously decided he could make a lot of money out of this rehearsal room lark . |
| 2 | The neck was so twisted you could lay the chin on either shoulder . |
| 3 | He had n't been thinking anything of the sort and last night he had only suggested he could settle her business for her with a phone call to the manager , whom he knew well , because he wanted to take her out today instead of waiting outside hotels for her . |
| 4 | She prided herself on her strength — and yet this man , who had already proven he could stand up to her verbally , was holding her off as she if she were a feather . |
| 5 | She had not realised they could reach out from the charmed circle of themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a great shame because every year the prize-wining pumpkin is used in the seeds contest by a local pub and I 'd already said they could have it . ’ |
| 7 | Thus equipped I could watch the films in comfort , switching from one screen to the other . |
| 8 | And if I am not mistaken you could see share prices really motoring after that . |
| 9 | The decision on prejudice is presumably at the discretion of police and tax officers ; if widely exercised it could set at naught some of the principal objects of the Act . |
| 10 | He had honestly believed he could take the place of everything she had ever known if only she was willing to give him the chance . |
| 11 | Liberal Democrat MPs were later warned they could face a backlash in the country if their votes save Mr Major . |
| 12 | Had she really thought she could talk to me ? |
| 13 | She had broken the law unwittingly , but still she had broken it , and if Jake was really determined he could make her pay for it . |
| 14 | I had n't realised he could score like that . |
| 15 | I had n't realised he could score like that . ’ |
| 16 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 17 | She had n't thought she could stomach anything , but now that it was placed in front of her … |
| 18 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 19 | I was fully clothed , how come I could feel the warmth through my sweater ? |
| 20 | I 'd naively thought they could mount some low-profile operation to catch Andy watching his own funeral ; I 'd imagined cops slinking through the undergrowth , whispering into radios , gradually closing in . |
| 21 | Now that her ankle was fully recovered she could wear a higher pair of fragile silver sandals . |
| 22 | Michigan 's Criminal Sexual Conduct statute held the promise of change that would be both instrumental and symbolic in impact : properly implemented it could bring about improvements in the criminal justice system , the conviction rate and the treatment of victims . ’ |
| 23 | She had gone for a walk up the road , beside a field of sunflowers , and although the sun had not yet risen she could sense the whole field turning away from her and each flower raising its face towards the eastern hills over which the sun would shortly leap . |
| 24 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 25 | Even those who had never met her could tell from her letters and articles that she had something special ; an eye for the kind of colourful details people would remember . |
| 26 | Mother Francis the celibate nun who had never thought she could know the joy of seeing a child grow up in her care had loved Eve in a way that might well have made her blind to the feelings and sensitivities of other people . |
| 27 | He had never thought he could share his life with anyone . |
| 28 | I remember trying to help one of the sisters dress a badly wounded back — something I had never thought I could do . |
| 29 | More than that , Mosley had completely out-manoeuvred Balestre in an election campaign which the great Gallic dictator had never believed he could lose . |
| 30 | Vi had never imagined she could think kindly of any submarine again , but if it was one of your own then surely it was right and proper to wish it well , and raising her hand she had traced a blessing on the early morning air . |