Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] could be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 2 | She did n't think she could be turned out , but she was n't going to stay , not with that bitch . |
| 3 | Did he think she could be won over with gentleness ? |
| 4 | That was the goal for 1989 but , despite our best endeavours , the contractor work force did n't believe it could be done . |
| 5 | George elected himself to go and see what could be done in the way of sample jars and presently returned with gifts from the Chinese cook in the dome car , in the shape of four rinsed-out plastic tomato-sauce bottles rescued from the rubbish bin . |
| 6 | Either it might see what could be done within the area which Kant had left to it ; or it might ask whether there might not after all be rather more to be said about the way in which genuine knowledge of God is made possible . |
| 7 | Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was . |
| 8 | I do n't suppose you could be persuaded to come up by train for a night or two could you ? = that would be so very super , a treat of the first order . |
| 9 | I do n't think it could be done today but there was a lamentable lack of security because nobody thought this sort of thing could happen |
| 10 | ‘ Do you think it could be de-activated , sir ? ’ |
| 11 | They distrusted predictions about the far reaches of the universe because it did not seem they could be tested by observation . |
| 12 | It was too amusing — that they would imagine she could be taken along so easily . |
| 13 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |
| 14 | ‘ I dare say he could be persuaded to convey letters from Ludlow to a certain damsel of my acquaintance . ’ |