Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A management/arcade hybrid such as this could only really work if both sections are of a reasonably high standard . |
| 2 | So far did the experience lie beyond the normal province of time , she could not later tell whether it lasted for moments only or extended into hours . |
| 3 | She could n't speak , could not even think while his thumb was brushing back and forth across her mouth like that . |
| 4 | The tour , originally scheduled to leave at 9.30 a.m. , could not now leave until well after a buffet lunch , if this latter could he arranged by the kitchen staff ( the Manager nodded ) . |
| 5 | There was n't earth behind , but another stone , a bigger one , chalk , and I could n't even find where its edge was . |
| 6 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 7 | The truth is that I could no longer tell whether I was cold or not , hungry or not . |
| 8 | The team would do what the individual could no longer do because the organisation was becoming too large and/or complex . |
| 9 | One major contribution , if not the most important , was the growing disagreement which raged around the loose Elizabethan compromises of religious conscience , which could no longer work when the personalities involved changed . |
| 10 | With a single currency in place , that could no more happen than the Government of the United Kingdom could today allow Wales or Scotland to go off and fight a war of its own . |
| 11 | I could actually tomorrow to see if it 's in the library could n't I ? |