Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 2 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 3 | Before I could protest at the misrepresentation , Mary said , ‘ Oh , no , that 's not so at all — that 's a very unscientific remark , if you do n't mind my saying so , sir ! |
| 4 | However , that is not an accusation that I could level at the Leader of the Opposition , as he has not found time to say anything at all about the environment — true or false . |
| 5 | I could tell at a glance whether the job was done or not . |
| 6 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 7 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |
| 8 | I could I could buy at the moment |
| 9 | I mean I could work at the for three pound an hour . |
| 10 | The delivery because it gave me what I had to think about when I was up there language body language and then the playbacks I could look at the two things that Mike just highlighted as one and two . |
| 11 | I could look at the library ca n't I ? |
| 12 | The inner side of the track was almost sheer at this point , brown broken rock glistening with water , and I could see at a glance where the rock had come from , a gaping hole oozing mud as though a giant molar had been extracted . |
| 13 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 14 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 15 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |
| 16 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
| 17 | She advanced to the desk she threw open the lid dramatically Mary-Lou drew in her breath and got away as far as she could looking at the inside of her desk with scared eyes |
| 18 | She could look at a row of colours for hours and never be bored . |
| 19 | you know , prices were moving , prices were moving up , she could afford at the beginning , what the price Daisy went up to , she could n't afford , she 's renting somewhere now |
| 20 | Lili had bought it because it was the only work in English she could find at the bookstall . |
| 21 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 22 | By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades . |
| 23 | After you have studied these papers , I would be pleased to know if you could appear at the public inquiry to present evidence in support of the Regional Council 's case and , in particular , on the supply and demand for office floor space in the Edinburgh area , and the poor marketability of Millerhill as a location for major office and class 4 business development . |
| 24 | I would like to ask if you could officiate at the start , and set us all off . |
| 25 | That 's right , that 's right , yes , how we consume these products , yes , I mean , you 're right , so a potato is a potato is a potato , but if it 's pre-packed , graded and washed , that is sort of intrinsically different from er , er , sort of , mouldy , scruffy old potatoes that you could buy at a greengrocer . |
| 26 | Even forgetting the fact that the Cobra was the fastest accelerating car you could buy at the time , that only puts it between the £21,620 Elan SE and the entry level £26,400 Excel SE , close to the £22,363 Morgan plus eight and even closer to the £23,526 Toyota Supra Turbo . |
| 27 | If you could n't afford the original records , there were smaller ones you could buy at the Woolworths in the King 's Road , which sounded quite like . |
| 28 | You could say at the last he had his brother 's fibre , but it was manifested in fortitude instead of daring — which is a more admirable thing . |
| 29 | They were not all scandalous , though ; some were conventional love songs of the sort you could hear at the cinema or on the radio , if you had one . |
| 30 | Yes , you could mock at the idea , but that was n't enough to rid yourself of its insidious appeal , politely , persistently tugging at your soul . |