Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 2 | He got away with being what many others could only secretly aspire to be . |
| 3 | Because the employee could only therefore point to the licensing fee as a tangible form of benefit , he also argued that the employer 's use of the valve in the steel production process at its South Teesside plant generated other economic benefits . |
| 4 | It was sufficient for the king 's purpose to avoid excommunication , but Anselm could not yet return to England because ‘ not being willing [ as Eadmer reports ] in any way to violate his obedience to the pope ’ he could have no dealings with the king 's excommunicated ministers . |
| 5 | It was clear that he and Sarah could not easily talk to each other about sexual issues . |
| 6 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money . |
| 7 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money' |
| 8 | A generation ago in the South , blacks could not even go to white lavatories or be buried in white cemeteries — let alone compete for good jobs or live in white suburbs . |
| 9 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |
| 10 | Herod , who reigned over Palestine at the time , could not even claim to be a Jew by birth . |
| 11 | It was argued that having accepted these rights , member States could not subsequently claim to be third parties with respect to any obligations of such a treaty . |
| 12 | Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ . |
| 13 | But she did not want to — could not really afford to — offend him . |
| 14 | Unless full powers were given to the pope 's ambassadors their success was likely to be qualified — without telephones , " hotlines " , faxes , they could not speedily refer to the centre . |
| 15 | I could not possibly go to another doctor . |
| 16 | Neither of these stations are any use to me if my car is out of action , however , because I could not possibly walk to them . |
| 17 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
| 18 | He turned and said something that Elisa could not quite catch to a young girl , unnoticed before , who had stationed herself by the door . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly many arts teachers will greet this news with relief , but for others there will be concern that here again the arts are being subjected to a form of discrimination , and that this could once more lead to their being marginalized . |
| 20 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 21 | Also the same if you 're playing football with Jim on Thursday you could also just mention to , I 'll leave you a couple of these er these leaflets which do explain a lot of the areas we 've covered tonight , erm perhaps you could give one to Peter or |
| 22 | But if it 's taken him 28 years to rediscover the show , the character 's never left him : ‘ All that Cockney toughness is just a cover for the inability to love , ’ he says of Littlechap , but it could as easily apply to him ( 'I 'm desperately childish . |
| 23 | That is something one could now probably do to Kinzu . |
| 24 | It seems likely that in very primitive multicellular forms the main mode of communication was chemical — a substance released by one cell , say signalling for the cell to contract , could fairly quickly diffuse to other cells , ensuring that they too contracted . |
| 25 | He might be amazingly good to look at , he might be brilliant company , he might possibly be an amazing lover , though she could n't truthfully testify to that in depth , but jokes and … and sex were n't everything . |
| 26 | So now he could n't even bear to be with her . |
| 27 | And I could n't even talk to you about them . |
| 28 | I could n't even go to the toilet without her . |
| 29 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 30 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |