Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I was thinking we could perhaps take her to Blagden Hall now that 's open . |
| 2 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 3 | She still had an edge , Ma , you could only hand it to her . |
| 4 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
| 5 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 6 | Ron Todd , the general secretary of the transport workers ' union , said that today 's vote on the multilaterist nuclear defence policy would not yield the ‘ massive and overwhelming ’ majority predicted by right-wingers , and he warned that party leaders could not expect everybody to ‘ goose-step ’ in the same direction once the policy had been carried . |
| 7 | I could not expect her to be bridesmaid . |
| 8 | He could not expect them to be warmed by the idea of daffodils coming up outside . |
| 9 | For she could not bear him to be unhappy — even if it meant that she must … |
| 10 | Larry Cummins unfortunately , could not make it to England for the reunion . |
| 11 | I could not formulate it to myself then but I felt the uniqueness . |
| 12 | ( I should point out that I could not bring myself to a Japanese option ! ) |
| 13 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 14 | ‘ I could not lend it to you . ’ |
| 15 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 16 | ‘ We were told that we could not add anything to the pedestrian provision after the initial period . |
| 17 | He could not put them to the Committee and I look forward to seeing whether they can be put forward tonight . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , her husband could not reconcile himself to having married a commoner and even taught their sons to be disrespectful to her when they were young . |
| 19 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |
| 20 | Ellen was emphatic : — I could not take myself to a Foreign Land as you did Lily and never wanted such a thing and though you would be there that alone would in no way satisfy me and I should be afraid . |
| 21 | He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere . |
| 22 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 23 | She could not take him to Nan-Nan who would soon be , if she were n't already , fussing , supervising the nurserymaids , the care of the baby … . |
| 24 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 25 | Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead . |
| 26 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 27 | Searle did not have title and therefore could not transfer it to Harper . |
| 28 | It seemed outrageously unfair that after so long she could not have him to herself and she hoped that his lodger would be tactful enough to leave them in peace during her visit . |
| 29 | But at the end of the discussions between the project coordinator and the client , when you have actually helped him and led along , you could have this , or you could have that , or perhaps we could just take it to this stage , cost some options out and give you a recommendation . |
| 30 | If you could just get me to the nearest station — ’ |