Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most enterprising squirrel could scarcely have done that . |
| 2 | there were pressures coming on the company which would mean that we could not continue to do that |
| 3 | One could not fail to understand that . |
| 4 | I could not bear to touch that part of the body . |
| 5 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |
| 6 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 7 | He insisted : ‘ I could not have made that statement . |
| 8 | It would have appeared to be charity and she could not have borne that . |
| 9 | The man sitting before me could not have forgotten that ; he just chose to ignore it . |
| 10 | In a matter as fundamental as that of the constitution of the church , God could not have allowed that error should have persisted over such a period of time . |
| 11 | ‘ I could not have allowed that . ’ |
| 12 | Well if I could just read read that , a well planned strategy for hou for land , for hous , sorry a well planned strategy for land for housing which ensures that housing is available in the areas where jobs are being being created can make a valuable contri contribution to national prosperity and economic growth , so I say I do n't think we would have that erm valuable contribution if the new settlement were located away from Greater York . |
| 13 | What other Fourth Division club could possibly consider facing that sort of challenge ? ’ |
| 14 | Volume shipments will start in July , at $1,231 apiece for quantities of over 10,000 — although it 's difficult to conceive of any third party able to forecast that it will ship 10,000 machines during the lifetime of the chip , and even the most optimistic parallel processor builder could hardly hope to ship that many nodes in any foreseeable time-frame . |
| 15 | He said : " she could still have altered that last part of what she foresaw . |
| 16 | And even the county champions could n't hope to defend that . |
| 17 | Of course a chivalrous fellow such as yourself could n't contemplate shooting that … parody of a living ancestor . |
| 18 | I could n't contemplate hauling that lot back . |
| 19 | There was no way we could put TI money into the company , we could n't justify doing that to the shareholders because it looked to us as though BA was going to go under . |
| 20 | Carrie felt she could n't bear to hear that light , cheerful voice sing out , ‘ Good-bye , Druid 's Bottom . ’ |
| 21 | The fall itself did n't kill her — it was hitting her head on the stanchion ; Georgina could n't have planned that . ’ |
| 22 | I only accepted this [ methadone ] maintenance course to make sure he went on one , too , because if I had n't , he would have carried on using gear and I could n't have handled that . |
| 23 | You could see her thinking about it , but you could n't have heard that on the phone . |
| 24 | Ten days before , the lad could n't have said that . |
| 25 | ‘ You could n't have done that . ’ |
| 26 | The Ipswich Borough Police could n't have done that . |
| 27 | I could n't have done that myself . |
| 28 | But the hoaxer could n't have known that . |
| 29 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 30 | So there was no more talk about the far-away things that were coming nearer ; but as for thinking — well , Auntie could n't help doing that , in her way . |