Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you started from the insect , and jumped like a demented flea half a trillion times , you could expect to arrive at the fox once . |
| 2 | And of all fighters Hotspur could remember holding at the end of his own sword , this was the bonniest . |
| 3 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 4 | However , it is difficult to believe that sufficient quantities of suitable substances could have appeared at the Cytherean surface to mop up anywhere near the amount of oxygen that would be liberated from an Earth-like quantity of water . |
| 5 | I could have stood at the window all afternoon , |
| 6 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 7 | It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday . |
| 8 | If the doorsteps could have curled at the edges , they would have done so . |
| 9 | She could have continued at the City Press , and he remained a policeman . |
| 10 | So she said what it was , and then looking through it , it actually certainly we could have done with a fle I could have looked at the the flexible thing before we came to the meeting , because it |
| 11 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 12 | The whole place stank of money : much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if the member of parliament was induced to solicit for the removal of an acting officer , any failure to arrange the question satisfactorily would be taken in his constituency as a failure of political interest in London and evidence of a lack of effective power , which again could prove damaging at the next general election . |
| 14 | Shortly before the 1927 Cup final , a series of bars with a football tied to them was installed in the St John 's College training ground adjacent to the club , so that players could practise kicking at the bars and trapping the ball as it rebounded at awkward angles . |