Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a good chance that someone could go into prison in similar circumstances and the same things would happen again . |
| 2 | ‘ The path between the car park and the sports centre is quite dark and I imagine it 's the sort of place someone could lie in wait . ’ |
| 3 | Nobody could sleep at night . |
| 4 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 5 | Also known as Fachen , Fachin , or the Diereach , this evil monster from Scotland is so ugly that simply looking upon one could result in death from heart failure . |
| 6 | The saddlery is equipped with an alarm but owner Bill Perratt said the raid was over so quickly no one could react in time to catch the culprits . |
| 7 | One could sit in front of the fire , but there the lighting was difficult and it was too scorchingly hot . ) |
| 8 | One could register for NVQ studies at 18 , but take the examinations at 80 . |
| 9 | It was the least one could do in gratitude for so many years of loyal friendship , and the only basis on which that friendship could continue . |
| 10 | Was it , wondered Robert , something one could do by post ? |
| 11 | Smart , one could go to town or anywhere in it . |
| 12 | There were those who might doubt the beneficial character of revived kingship ; but no one could quarrel with Map 's view that Louis was responsible for a major change of direction in the history of France . |
| 13 | It seemed unlikely that the undertaker had troubled sufficiently about those who survived him to take such precautions , but no one could speak with confidence of what had passed through the mind of this man whose deepest preoccupations seemed to be represented by a few scored lines in a medical book and a little bundle of poems . |
| 14 | No one could convert to Christianity in Sri Lanka without a complete break from their family and culture . |
| 15 | No one could predict with certainty whether or not the King would grant a dissolution in such circumstances , but his inclination was to ensure that the Labour government be given every privilege that previous governments had enjoyed . |
| 16 | It might be thought that one could look at lung cancer death rates among groups of people ( e.g. Mormons , Seventh Day Adventists ) who never smoke . |
| 17 | And the more one knew , the more control one could wield over circumstance . |
| 18 | There were limits o what one could say about milk yields and the EEC . |
| 19 | The normal association of prose with the lower elements — no one could say in prose ‘ I am fre and air ; my other elements/I give to baser life ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , V.ii.289f. ) — is revealed most amusingly in the case of Bottom . |
| 20 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 21 | It was impossible to know the truth about Timothy Gedge , why he was as he was ; no one could know with certainty . |
| 22 | A Hebridean island — it does sound like a place where one could work in peace , and they have actually called it an ‘ ivory tower ’ . |
| 23 | His host had mentioned three daughters , but they were definitely not the sort of girls one could tumble into bed and then forget . |
| 24 | As Sister Cecilia was to say to her , one could live without reading , writing , or arithmetic , sewing , singing or geography ; and yes — there would be a twinkle in her eye — with some , even without the good God ; but one could n't live without food and without those who knew how to make it appetising to the tongue . |
| 25 | I wondered how long one could live without food or water ? |
| 26 | We needed a word processor that anybody could sit in front of and use quickly and easily . |
| 27 | Mr Stan Hardy , the league 's new director-general , said yesterday that anybody could ask for material that may be held on them . |