Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] could [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 2 | He left open the possibility that Girobank , recently privatised , could be made responsible for collecting repayments and chasing defaulters , the number of whom could rise significantly above the Government 's current estimates . |
| 3 | sometimes come to Glasgow and either of them could go up to Stirling |
| 4 | The dacha was owned by a doctor who , Vasili reasoned , would be able to snap Lena out of her trance ; then the two of them could set off for Tula on the banks of the River Don where they would lie low until , with time , the investigation wound down . |
| 5 | ‘ You flatter me , both of you , ’ he said , and again Julia was amazed that the pair of them could appear so cheerful . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 8 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 9 | The thin man said Crane should be left to make his own way so that the rest of them could ride as fast as they could down one of the tracks to the south . |
| 10 | Any of them could add up to ten ! |
| 11 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 12 | None of them could understand why a bright and hard-working girl like Lydia would wish to marry him . |
| 13 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 14 | A squire 's trick , the Corn Laws , banning the import of cheap foreign corn — which would have meant cheap bread in the cities — so that the squires , who grew the stuff on those ancestral lands of theirs could charge as much as they liked for it . |
| 15 | In addition , the cost of equipment and armour , the quality of which could vary considerably , added greatly to the expense of going to war . |
| 16 | The pair of you could live here and look after me in my dotage . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Kinnock 's soft shoe shuffle , as he prepares to court the Liberal Democrats in the event of a hung Parliament , is an earnest of what could lie ahead . |
| 18 | ‘ Italian fashions , ’ said Felicity , ‘ the ready-to-wear collections — one of us could go over to Milan … ’ |
| 19 | There 's no way any of us could walk out of this station in uniform . |
| 20 | Terry was really taken at the time with bands like The Cardiacs , but none of the rest of us could get off on that impressive-sounding , orchestral rock band kind of approach . |
| 21 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 22 | None of us could imagine where the mule came from . |
| 23 | Even then the older amongst them could look back to the early 1790s when debate about , and the practice of , abstention from slave-grown colonial sugar was claimed by Clarkson to have drawn in about 300,000 families . |
| 24 | Home home counties people like me could go anywhere . |
| 25 | He acknowledges the ‘ Humean predicament ’ ; both induction and the hypothetico-deductive method are fallible , so that any of the beliefs which result from them could turn out to be in error . |
| 26 | If your luck 's in you could land straight away on square number six , a relatively peaceful Christmas , 1991 , at Sandringham . |
| 27 | Her mother feared the trauma of being snatched from her could bring on an attack , and ran around frantically trying to find both the inhaler and the child 's tablets . |
| 28 | Oh , Mum , what a mess your daughter has got herself into , and all because of her silly pride , her determination to lash out first before anyone could lash back ! |
| 29 | In what could turn out to be a positive sign for the future of graphical user interfaces , Quorum Software Systems Inc of Menlo Park , California , has resolved its lawsuit with Apple Computer Inc , under terms not disclosed ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 30 | But a view of Co-operation which admitted only those who are thus motivated would make it an exceptional and exclusive creed to which could subscribe only those for whom Co-operation was itself the end and not the means to a better life , to one which enhanced what Dahrendorf calls a man 's life chances . |