Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 13 December 842 , at the palace of Quierzy , Charles married Ermentrude , niece of Adalard , because " he thought he could thereby win over to himself [ the support of ] the majority of the lesser aristocracy ( plebs ) " . |
| 2 | Due in the second quarter of next year , the machine , originally code-named the A20 , could eventually go up to 20 CPU . |
| 3 | The system will likely be the first in a series of RS/6000 multi-processors that could eventually incorporate up to 16 CPUs . |
| 4 | They tried to reach the River Po , which they hoped to cross so that they could eventually get back to Germany . |
| 5 | But they admit that these babies had not achieved complete and independent toileting as they could only hold on to their eliminations for a few minutes and needed help to undress and get on the potty . |
| 6 | And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was . |
| 7 | In its original form NT could only support up to three processors , Sequent says , and was not a scalable . |
| 8 | The long line of leading Conservatives on the platform fixed their faces into expressions of interested concern , and prepared themselves for what could only turn out to be a surfeit of oratory . |
| 9 | It could only seem so to those who see sexuality as something essentially disruptive , invading , and dangerous . |
| 10 | Why endeavour to demystify the ‘ subtext ’ of a lager commercial when that supposed subtext could scarcely lie closer to the surface and is being forced on one 's attention the way a card-sharper forces a card ? |
| 11 | This meant that any Gascon appealing against the verdict of one of the sub-seneschals could not go directly to Paris . |
| 12 | The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction . |
| 13 | Always , though , whether immediately or eventually , she would acquiesce , and I resented her acquiescence , not only because of its consequences for myself , but because I did n't understand why she , an adult , would not or could not stand up to him . |
| 14 | In a crash , you could not hold on to your baby , or she might be crushed between you and the dashboard or seat . |
| 15 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 16 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 17 | He helped the girl down very deliberately — well aware of Burkett 's calculating and approving regard — and as his fingers pressed on that tensile waist , as her free breasts brushed his over-layered chest , as her thighs carelessly kissed his own , he saw a break in the tight-capped cloud of his misery : but he could not reach out to it . |
| 18 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 19 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 20 | Secondly , CAFFE could not react intelligently to a user 's needs . |
| 21 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 22 | The shapechanger could not face up to his failure ; with only five khthons left there would be no mass production of the drug . |
| 23 | Ballymena continued to do all the pressing but could not add further to their tally until the break . |
| 24 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 25 | He hoped that Ann Butler would stay in Leeds , but felt he could not say so to Elizabeth . |
| 26 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 27 | Only the suspicion that he had something important to say and could not work around to saying it kept her out there with him . |
| 28 | He was crazily frightened and awfully ashamed , so that , when he heard voices , men speak outside the cubicle , he could not yell out to be seen this way . |
| 29 | Apologies to readers who could not get through to our hotline on Friday morning . |
| 30 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |