Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 2 | It was because of these expectations about planning that members of the RTO felt they could comfortably cut down on DHA estimates of the revenue required for community services . |
| 3 | Her balance was very poor ; she could not stand up on her own , because strong associated reactions would pull her left side over ; her left Achilles tendon was extremely tight ; her left shoulder was very painful ; her arm was pulled into a bent position , with the hand tightly closed in a fist ( flexor spasm ) ; she could hardly sit up straight because of the severe spastic muscle pull on the left side of her body ; her mother had to push Dawn everywhere in her wheelchair , and give her total nursing support . |
| 4 | He held his automatic out sideways , away from his body so that they could not aim in on its flash , and fired two shots at the left-hand headlight of the Dodge . |
| 5 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |
| 6 | Now I though he would have hysterics ; he could not get down on the ground quick enough to carry this action out . |
| 7 | I saw that someone like Richard Pryor could just go out on stage and talk about what it was like to be Richard Pryor . |
| 8 | If I could just pick up on one point erm and that was related to the the two different types of inner relief road that that was proposed . |
| 9 | Maybe if she could just curl up on her bed and sleep for a while she 'd feel better . |
| 10 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 11 | No bombs , of course — they could easily check up on bombs — just an alert , so we 'd all be forced to find a shelter . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly look in on me in about fifteen minutes ? |
| 13 | If the quality of bottom-up information was good , the algorithm could quickly home in on the correct sequence of words . |
| 14 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 15 | He could always look back on bad things . |
| 16 | If we ca n't see anything more unusual suppose we could always fall back on the bubble baths or the anyway I think that 's a bit more than but there you go . |
| 17 | Additional ‘ close-look ’ equipment could also close in on international crises and warn of military and guerilla movements . |
| 18 | George Bush could now cash in on the country 's post-war confidence by launching another war on the black home-front . |
| 19 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 20 | He could n't go on the corkscrew he could n't go up on the ship he could n't go on anything . |
| 21 | Once the door was open it could n't move , so I could n't go down on it . |
| 22 | He kept interrupting and eventually I told him he could n't sit in on our discussions any more and I explained why . |
| 23 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 24 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 25 | ‘ Screens were erected , so that although boys and girls could see each other , they could n't climb out on the same side . |
| 26 | With the raft being swept away by the tide she could n't climb back on board and was struggling when the lifeboat crew reached her . |
| 27 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 28 | There was even the same poker game going on in the back room , a game I could n't get in on but which I could glimpse every time the same barmaid took refills through . |
| 29 | could n't get back on again . |
| 30 | Denis just could n't fall down on this job ; he 'd have to get the money somehow . |