Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
| 2 | I mean , I could sleep in the lounge . |
| 3 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 4 | Again I I showed all due diligence I could do in the situation . |
| 5 | I could stay in the hotel , ’ I said . |
| 6 | I could stay in the house and be marked as frightened , or I could do battle with the elements , making my way to the family as usual . |
| 7 | ‘ … with honour , ’ I added ( they were not , I realized , quite the right words but they were the nearest I could find in the urgency of the moment ) . |
| 8 | Whenever I could , I went out , armed with my expensive binoculars , to see what I could find in the fields or to observe the coastal birds — puffins , with the splendid red , yellow and blue bills which they shed when the mating season is over ; cormorants nesting in colonies on ledges in the cliffs ; screeching gannets and all the members of the gull family . |
| 9 | She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater . |
| 10 | After gobbling up whatever I could find in the house , I crept into bed and pulled the blankets over my head in a vain attempt to stifle the mocking voices and shut out the ugly visions . |
| 11 | ‘ I was able to soar up , to fly , I could rock in the air like that balloon , I could fly away with it , choose any of the four points of the compass , but I remained where I was , I stopped above this small , painful , blessed piece of earth . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I could drive in the jungle , but I could n't drive in Newcastle . |
| 13 | Dod dropped me in Hackney , two streets away from Stuart Street so I could call in the Chinese take-away on the way . |
| 14 | My parents lived in the big house and I built a studio and had a whole little place where I could live in the basement and it was very convenient , so David would come round there . ’ |
| 15 | Might even go nursing — I did a bit once — and I could live in the hostel . ’ |
| 16 | er , we have in the East end of the village , including the pub , the farm , and various other properties , a certain type of properties that elevation , a certain sympathetic er amenity , and these buildings , I I heard the word mentioned earlier , I live in the country , I could live in the town , it does n't matter where I live , but these are not the sort of properties , in my opinion , that should be put on this particular site , er and they 're they 're totally , all our own elevations and plans of height , and they are totally and utterly out of proportion and out of scale with the present day entrance to the village , and whilst we 're not talking totally and utterly about looks , if you come down into the village they are going to be totally over powering , particularly in the , in the actual , in this situation of no hedges and that kind of thing , |
| 17 | For example , the Oracle might say , ‘ I could see in the stars that the Feast would take in the foolish , I told my master to prepare for a great revenge ’ , and then have the Oracle tell the adventurers the story of the Poison Feast from the Drachenfels novel in full , if the players have n't read that book . |
| 18 | I could see in the wing mirror that my arrival had provoked some interest . |
| 19 | From what I could see in the mirror he looked more interested in you than in the bureau . ’ |
| 20 | The slightest move by either of them could result in the encounter of a foot or , worse still , the brushing of knees . |
| 21 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 22 | Then she laid down as many of the others as she could fit in the space . |
| 23 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 24 | She could sit in the armchairs : Marie had seen her . |
| 25 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 26 | If she was good , maybe ‘ soon ’ would be sooner still and she could dance in the meanings … . |
| 27 | He looked calmly , almost — as far as she could tell in the light that poured from the house onto the terrace — amusedly at her . |
| 28 | Her head shot up — it was all of her that she could move in the confined space — and blue eyes locked with sleepy brown ones . |
| 29 | She wished she could stand in the night and laugh , but already she had been heard . |
| 30 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |