Example sentences of "could [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Paul would be grateful if Commander Dalgliesh could spare a few minutes to see him . |
| 2 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 3 | His reported reaction was that if his order could answer a hundred heretics a year , they would not be beaten by one Catholic . |
| 4 | ‘ Nevertheless , Mrs Atkins , I would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions down at the station … ’ |
| 5 | Q : Valerie has asked me if you could answer a few questions on her behalf . |
| 6 | When Sam Phillips , founder of Sun Records and ‘ creator ’ of Elvis Presley , said , ‘ If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel , I could make a billion dollars ’ ( quoted in Hopkins 1971 : 66 ) , the twin motivations , artistic and commercial , were not separated or separable . |
| 7 | No , we 've got them sort of standing up on , on the top of our book shelf I suppose I could make a few lanterns for in here for Christmas . |
| 8 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 9 | Do you enter a big competition , and you could win a million pounds plus six . |
| 10 | A couple of new songs had a few ideas ‘ borrowed ’ from The Mission and New Model Army and could give a few clues as to which market Echo & The Bunnymen see themselves operating in during their climb back up the ladder to fame and fortune . |
| 11 | You work it out in stages , little bits , and then you add the bits together and then you add the bits together , so you say , well I could do a hundred times seventeen and then I could do ones times seventeen . |
| 12 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
| 13 | THE annual Jim Clark Memorial Rally could become a Berwickshire-based roads rally of European stature in the next two years . |
| 14 | They could search a thousand years and they 'd not find it . |
| 15 | ‘ I could see a hundred evictions and still keep a level head on that subject . |
| 16 | I gazed upwards and could see a few stars twinkling in the sky , one seemed much brighter than the others . |
| 17 | I could see a few figures strung out across it in the gloom . |
| 18 | At the entrance to the grounds of the Chateau I could see a few Commandos . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's my problem , ’ Hari said firmly , ‘ what I want from you is help in making the shoes , perhaps you could work a few evenings for me ? ’ |
| 20 | She was in food time this morning , and could spend a few minutes on the bridge , looking at the river . |
| 21 | And you could spend a few days there . |
| 22 | She could spend a few days in Prague just enjoying herself , and … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Any idiot could stick a few leaves from a houseplant on their heads , and wrap themselves in a bedsheet . |
| 24 | Since he could command a thousand guineas a time , he was well able to afford such a residence . |
| 25 | Young Buster 's class should tell in the Hayselden Audi/ VW Doncaster Shield , but Taufan Blu could upset a few reputations in the Cammidge Trophy . |
| 26 | He could strum a few chords , but the acoustic guitar on the records , is that him or is it you ? |
| 27 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 28 | All the previous week Kidd had exhorted his forwards to concentrate on winning the battle up front and not simply live in hope that they could gain a few crumbs and hope their more skilful backs would steal a march on Shannon . |
| 29 | Further delays could have a serious effects on Army plans to introduce a fleet of gunship anti-tank helicopters , for which the long range Trigat is intended to be the primary weapon . |
| 30 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |