Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] could [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up . |
| 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 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 4 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 5 | He moved up to kiss her while his hand continued to stroke her aching body , then , when neither of them could bear it any longer , he thrust into her , and she arched back , drowning under wave after wave of mounting pleasure . |
| 6 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 7 | He ran across the wet road and over to the hospital entrance before any of them could answer him . |
| 8 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 9 | Two of them could handle it but the other one … |
| 10 | But of course he did n't and none of them could see what he felt like . |
| 11 | The Man had taken his jacket off and was holding it out in front of him and all of them could see what he intended to do . |
| 12 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 13 | Both of them could attribute their popularity to the fact that in the old days , when opening hours were not so well controlled , they stayed open longer than others , with the result that patrons of The Cock and The Bull were usually the most tipsy . |
| 14 | If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special . |
| 15 | It reminded her of the old days when just a passing glance of his could reduce her to a state of burning confusion . |
| 16 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |
| 17 | The decision is made harder by the knowledge that almost all terminally ill patients are receiving medication and may be suffering pain and distress , all of which could affect their mental competence , quite apart from some doctors ' reluctance to ‘ give up . ’ |
| 18 | Any one of which could get you either hospitalized or excommunicated . |
| 19 | Any one of which could win you £50,000 in cash . |
| 20 | Any one of which could win you £50,000 in cash . |
| 21 | If I said to you I missed Neighbours on Friday , what happened , a lot of you could tell me , could n't you ? |
| 22 | Do you imagine that I could forgive and forget , knowing what I know now , or that any of you could meet my eye , knowing what you do ? |
| 23 | There ai n't one of 'em could punch their way out of a paper bag . ’ |
| 24 | I was surprised that Burns did not explain that none of us could wash our faces or hands because the water had been frozen . |
| 25 | And , before any of us could do anything , she flitted like a ghost back into the trees . |
| 26 | ‘ We actually should have gone to Edinburgh in November to receive the award but as we are all volunteers none of us could make it , ’ said Jean Reid , secretary of Islay and Jura Community Enterprise . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose that 's when we should have called a halt , but now I do n't know how either of us could bear it . ’ |
| 28 | The trouble was that none of us could understand it . |
| 29 | How many of us could keep our |
| 30 | If each of us could play our own small part , those parts would link up , like the ripples on a pond , to make a earth-saving whole . |