Example sentences of "could [verb] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy . |
| 2 | Richie was the only person he could think of with the necessary clout . |
| 3 | There could be no answer to that , none that I could think of at the time . |
| 4 | No they do n't , but it was the only accent I could think of at the time . |
| 5 | This is the operation that plant workers decided they could do without on the morning of the accident . |
| 6 | Whatever she could look for in the future must be looked for outside marriage . |
| 7 | That 's something we could look at in the future because we can actually stagger the payments for that and it |
| 8 | If we had a boat we could row across to the island of a picture |
| 9 | Spices suited this situation very well : they had a high value in proportion to their weight , they could not be produced in Europe , and they were always valued by rich people who used them to mask the taste of the not-too-well preserved meat which was the best that anyone could hope for in the winter . |
| 10 | they employed six thousand people and when the came they all went to Law Street adjacent to the factory so they could walk across to the job and er look at it now , they 've smashed it all down , it 's gon na be an Asian big store . |
| 11 | Erm more calls than we could cope with in the end for and er see what happens to it and keep in touch write to your councillors and let them know what you think or write to me and I 'll pass the letters on . |
| 12 | One of the few places we could go to on the camp at Binbrook without risk of being observed by the hierarchy was the Station cinema . |
| 13 | She had made her own , to love him again , and it was all she could live with at the moment . |
| 14 | I wish there was someone I could talk to about the problems — someone who 'd keep an eye on him and watch for him getting bad and get the doctor to do something , sooner ; someone who 'd help him with money , a job , get him out of the room for a bit , give us a break too . |
| 15 | well my Lord one , one approach would be for er your Lordship to consider the matter in respect of er order fourteen A , er in terms of er the validity in the interim of the er Lloyds Act and the central fund byelaw and that is a matter that your Lordship could , could deal with on the basis of a , an oral application . |
| 16 | His fascination with these systematic orderings of society by kinship was such that he undertook a massive comparison and classification of as many systems of kinship terms as he could find from around the world , terms such as ‘ cousin ’ , ‘ uncle ’ , etc . |
| 17 | She felt that a whole phalanx of gibbering wraiths could rise from beneath the flagstones and Elizabeth would indifferently offer them sherry . |
| 18 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |