Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some industry watchers espouse the theory that says Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp picked on the COSE move as a way out of OSF and that OSF could eventually find itself with its funding terminated and its sponsors telling it it 's a for-profit software developer . |
| 2 | And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding , the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss . |
| 3 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 4 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 5 | The world is littered with communities which believe that if they could only separate themselves from the world , they would escape the consequences of original sin . |
| 6 | Ruth could only blame herself for being so blind and gullible . |
| 7 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 8 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 9 | He could scarcely help himself in choosing this physical format . |
| 10 | Planned tours aside , it 's just possible that all of the Brennan family could soon find themselves in the charts . |
| 11 | I wondered what it was that could come between a husband and wife when their child killed herself away from home and in circumstances for which they could not hold themselves in any way responsible . |
| 12 | He could not stop himself from thinking about it and he shuddered , as he imagined again Simon 's hands around his neck . |
| 13 | Many people would say that Jesus could not stop himself from healing people because of his overwhelming feeling of compassion and love for them . |
| 14 | Then came the tears — Gascoigne simply could not stop himself from crying . |
| 15 | Even so , he could not stop himself from feeling it was wrong . |
| 16 | But I could not stop myself from more murder . |
| 17 | And Amabel could not stop herself from thinking that this dreadful , dirty town must surely be to blame , that if Gemma had been less stubborn about remaining here , in this dark old manor , standing cheek-by-jowl with the brewery and the foundry and those hundreds and hundreds of unwashed , unlettered people who worked in them , then this tragedy would not have occurred . |
| 18 | By this time Dinah was exhausted and desperate ; she could not drag herself round any more managers ’ offices today , they would look at her and see a bedraggled young woman who must be as bad as the papers said . |
| 19 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 20 | Such was the Doctor 's rage , so accustomed was Louise to obedience , that she could not prevent herself from hurrying to execute his orders . |
| 21 | She could not prevent herself from saying in a doubtful voice , ‘ You will be careful when you go to bed , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | But he was n't very good , and even to please her ( which was his only motive for practising ) he could not make himself into a musician . |
| 23 | Unlike homo sapiens , the species his long-dead master Sartori had been wont to call the blossom on the simian tree , Chant 's kind could not hide themselves from oblivion 's agents by closing a door and drawing the blinds . |
| 24 | Husbandry was so neglected the population could not feed itself from local resources . |
| 25 | Although there is some doubt as to whether or not he appreciated this , he could not commit himself without in practice committing his party — unless he was to be replaced . |
| 26 | ( I should point out that I could not bring myself to a Japanese option ! ) |
| 27 | The location of the offence can be proved by the officer in the case to show that the offender could not avail himself of the dwelling defence under section 5(2) and ( 3 ) . |
| 28 | I was now certain that I could not see myself in any type of residential home in the future . |
| 29 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 30 | 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 . |