Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | it 's a pity cos I mean if we put , if , if Billy went away on I could use it |
| 4 | There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were . |
| 5 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 6 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 7 | Only a woman can understand what 's wrong , and there 's nothing any of you could do . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The mother is very upset , more over what could have happened . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They should be er both of them could have put that all in black . |
| 13 | From various tables near by she could hear a handful of languages being spoken : English , Italian , Malti , even Arabic . |
| 14 | There seemed no limit now to what could go wrong ; panic welled up in her at the least excuse . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin . |