Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 2 | You always had a few explanations for why something did something and you could never pick out which — why it did it … you could explain it in several ways , and it just was n't positive enough for me . |
| 3 | If , if , if you could explain it by that because presumably their standard of living did change between eighteen fifty |
| 4 | It was appalling the way he could affect her like this . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish I could court you with beautiful words , ’ the farmer went on , ‘ but I can only say I love you madly and want you for my wife . |
| 6 | They were able to request anything they wanted from their administrative colleagues which they felt could aid them on any given mission . |
| 7 | He told me that he would donate £5,000 to the fund if I would undertake to invite his little son , then at school in Oxford , to tea on odd occasions , so that I could acquaint him with some of the matters relating to Judaism . |
| 8 | I knew ‘ Butcher 's Boy ’ was Danny 's call sign but who on earth could want him at two 0'clock in the morning ? |
| 9 | No good man , and Dr Neil was a good man , could want her after that . |
| 10 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 11 | Do you think you could make it by half past ? |
| 12 | Any creature that could eat hundreds of rugby balls could swallow us in one go . ’ |
| 13 | You could regard it as that part of the personality which is contr in control of voluntary thought and movement . |
| 14 | The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm . |
| 15 | ‘ But thinking I could orchestrate us like that was pretty high-handed . ’ |
| 16 | He observed that here there was no need to grow trees from seed ; one could buy them in various sizes , ‘ cultivated and clipped ’ at a moderate price on account of many competitive tradesmen . |
| 17 | You could buy it for fifty ! |
| 18 | But if you do n't mind this cinema verité approach to pornography and you get turned on by freaky-looking people , then the amateur video could introduce you to some interesting new bedtime pals . |
| 19 | I could predict them with reasonable assurance in each case , except Addy . |
| 20 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 21 | With a kindly and humorous look at me he said , ‘ ’ Well , we could dress you in Burmese clothes , we could darken your skin and dye your hair . |
| 22 | Banks prefer to lend short-term because their borrowing ( at least from depositors ) is short-term and changes in interest rates could lock them into long-term loans that were uneconomical . |
| 23 | Do you set out the sum , er you must set out some calculation of how many you are likely to lose over the life of the aircraft , is there a percentage figure you could give us for that ? |
| 24 | ‘ I could give it to another paper instead , could n't I ? ’ |
| 25 | leaving it and then going back to it to see if you could integrate it plus some graphs . |
| 26 | She was up in arms , riled by his easy assurance , his certainty that he could manipulate her like some puppet . |
| 27 | Maybe you could present it to those workmen . |
| 28 | ‘ What are your plans for the rest of the afternoon ? ’ she asked in her best trying-to-be-friendly voice , thinking that if she could pin-point him to some specific part of the house then she could at least do her best to avoid it . |
| 29 | If you have a skill you can use at home or as an itinerant worker , from gardening or hairdressing to cooking or sewing , a modest outlay on local advertising could bring you in enough to live on . |
| 30 | one of our serious of the year , we should er extend that debate er we could extend as late perhaps half past one for lunch or we could bring it to half way between half past one , so the feeling in respect of that |