Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure sure how we could build it into the criteria of But it 's it 's a point which would obviously have to be borne in mind in terms of the str you know , the planning process . |
| 3 | but even then we could have consignment stock here in effect cos they 're only forty minutes away , we could throw 'em in the back of the car and have 'em delivered . |
| 4 | The treatment can offset some effects of menopause , including brittle bone disease — osteoporosis — but the study reveals that the wrong kind of HRT could expose them to the risk of womb cancer . |
| 5 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 6 | She was Labour , she said , but was n't sure she could make it to the polls . |
| 7 | ‘ You could make it to the end now , and I 'll tell old Sam you 've done a length . ’ |
| 8 | With fifteen laps to go , the race was his : if he could make it to the end . |
| 9 | She sincerely hoped that she could make it to the track before any car came because she knew exactly what a mess she looked . |
| 10 | Leonora watched him go with mixed feelings , not really sure she could make it to the bathroom alone , despite her fine words . |
| 11 | If we could make it through the torrent to the bend ahead … |
| 12 | ‘ That was when I knew he could make it in the bigtime , ’ he says . |
| 13 | That you could make it in the movies with no boobs to speak of was , until recently , an alien notion . |
| 14 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 15 | At my mother 's I could dry it in the garden . |
| 16 | a derivative of it , which gave you the same high that ecstasy does and er , and if you did n't it from the doctor you could buy it on the street . |
| 17 | ‘ My office sought to arrange an interview with the Secretary of State for Employment so I could brief her on the situation . |
| 18 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 19 | This chapter examines reasons for using video in language teaching and considers when and how we could introduce it into the syllabus and into the lesson . |
| 20 | There was no danger now , he could enjoy it to the full . |
| 21 | We could hang them on the walls . |
| 22 | We could hang it over the stairs instead of that fish . |
| 23 | Well I could screw it to the wall . |
| 24 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 25 | She trusted him to look after the Post 's interests before he sold the story to any other outlets , but she did not know whether she could trust him with the story . |
| 26 | But this was n't his case ; he could discuss it with the detachment of a man who has a professional interest but no responsibility . |
| 27 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 28 | She could sense it in the way men talked to her , the sideways glances of strangers . |
| 29 | Perhaps she could smell me through the door . |
| 30 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |