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 could just see myself like some old peg , |
| 12 | Pohl has also specifically mentioned that Austria could easily annex itself to this monetary union since it has pegged the schilling to the Deutschmark for years . |
| 13 | ‘ If I could totally devote myself to tennis maybe that would help and I 'd be more into my tennis , but I 'm not that way . |
| 14 | The Soviet authorities after 1917 could hardly associate themselves with , for example , Russian Orthodoxy and the tradition it represented . |
| 15 | Alice could hardly prevent herself from openly exulting . |
| 16 | With himself , Aranyos and a dozen grenadiers for protection , even the fräulein could hardly get herself into trouble . |
| 17 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 18 | But he could hardly keep himself from laughing out loud in anticipation : he crammed his fist into his mouth to stifle the outburst . |
| 19 | If 1 Samuel 4 left them asking whether they could still regard themselves as the people of God , chapters 5 and 6 reassured them that their God had certainly not gone over to the Babylonians . |
| 20 | The Dark Power had lost for ever his eternal brightness , but his strength and intelligence were derived from God and he could still disguise himself as Lucifer the angel of light . |
| 21 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 22 | That is not to say that he would necessarily replace Weir , because in the long term Weir could still find himself on the side of the scrum — his lineout talents are difficult to ignore , and he has revelled in the additional freedom that the No 6 jumper is allowed . |
| 23 | If Sister does n't get a move on , they could always content themselves with the shortest children 's story ever told . |
| 24 | ‘ But it was good food on board , on the whole ; and you could always help yourself with biscuits and a bit of cheese or something . |
| 25 | By using a Greek derivation , foot lovers could always describe themselves as podophiles . |
| 26 | He wrote the part so that she could always support herself in exile if she did n't speak the language . ’ |
| 27 | Nobody could ever bring themselves to putting an animal out of its misery because the farm was no longer talked about , although at the back of everybody 's mind was a dream of a new farm , even better than the first , with water being pumped from underground to irrigate the crops . |
| 28 | They talked endlessly at MacAlister 's rooms in Merton , where Thomas could also measure himself against two further acquaintances , Fyffe and Wharton . |
| 29 | They could also provide themselves with home-made clubs and teach themselves to play . |
| 30 | Pabulum Consultants ' Jennifer Rust adds : ‘ They could also help themselves by thinking through a problem before phoning the support desk . |