Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could 've had the Queen Mum to tea there and not been ashamed . |
| 2 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 3 | The whole stereotype was a media creation anyway , so nobody in their right mind could claim to represent the Manchester scene . ’ |
| 4 | The Czechoslovakian scheme could entail diverting the Danube and redefining the border between the two countries , a violation of national treaties . |
| 5 | In addition doubts were expressed if the United States could hope to fight the USSR successfully without British assistance . |
| 6 | Ramsay asked Fraser if he thought that they could risk assuming the Regent 's agreement to this , and grinning , that man averred that Sir Archie Douglas would agree to anything that spared him trouble . |
| 7 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 8 | You could have said The Beatles were too much of a Liverpool band or that Woody Allen is too New York . |
| 9 | And when Red Square echoed and re-echoed to the boom of a 21-gun salute as 800 bandsmen played the national anthem , the ghosts of the Tsars in the Kremlin could have recognised the Russia they lost . |
| 10 | ‘ You could have saved the Ralembergs , ’ I added . |
| 11 | We could have crossed the Red Sea a lot earlier if we had known then what we know now . |
| 12 | I could have crossed the Sahara in it . |
| 13 | If he had given the speech that he gave at Bayeux in June 1946 a year earlier , he could have turned the October 1945 referendum and elections into a referendum on his own views . |
| 14 | A HANDY-sized roach could have turned the Chester Winter League result upside down . |
| 15 | If they had been younger , they could have scaled the Rockies in this high-stepping habit . |
| 16 | The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) . |
| 17 | Had genealogy been kinder to Scotland that night of illegitimate sex might have produced two players around whom Jock Stein could have moulded the Scotland team of the early '80s . |
| 18 | She could have set the Alice Liddell down comfortably on any of them , with room to spare . |
| 19 | He argued in particular that Plato could have known the Torah because there was an older translation than that patronized by Ptolemy Philadelphus . |
| 20 | Brian Salt ( Rists ) could have won the Kidsgrove Open on the Trent and Mersey Canal if he had n't missed his keepnet with an 8 oz roach . |
| 21 | If only Clive Rice had not been dropped by South Africa , maybe I could have persuaded the England selectors to give me a chance … |
| 22 | He could have rung the C.B.S . |
| 23 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 24 | I doubt very much if I could have started the Wroxeter School without Great Casterton . |
| 25 | It could aim to copy the Pentagon 's example , devoting a portion of the MOD 's budget to looking after a mothballed version of any production line judged a strategic asset . |
| 26 | No one could fail to understand the Onlooker 's reaction to the tale just unfolded . |
| 27 | In addition to the success of the LDP in broadly maintaining its position , its PKO allies — the DSP and Komeito — also performed well enough to ensure that they could continue to offer the LDP an overall majority in the upper house . |
| 28 | This market has become sharply more expensive in recent months , which could help limit the Lloyd 's exposure to reinsurance claims , a spokesman said . |
| 29 | The great issue of the next week was whether Law could agree to attend the Carlton Club meeting which Chamberlain had summoned at short notice for the Thursday morning , 19 October . |