Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep him from chasing younger birds — if he could 've summoned up the energy . |
| 2 | The captain showed them a rough map drawn crudely on tough , brown vellum and with a stubby finger and guttural comments pointed out the coastline of Fife , the manor of Kinghorn and the possible place where the French could dock to pick up a party from the beach . |
| 3 | She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault . |
| 4 | There was nothing we could do to pay back the debt of our existence . |
| 5 | Athelstan dosed his eyes , praying from whatever psalm he could remember to fend off the awful terrors which clung to the world of men . |
| 6 | DBV hoped to get £120,000 Euro grant which , topped up with another £30,000 , it could use to pay off the council . |
| 7 | A gang leader could hope to rise up the hierarchy of a hive . |
| 8 | If downpipes get blocked you could try pushing down a pole with a rag tied to the end . |
| 9 | So the chalk could have absorbed up the grease . |
| 10 | A COMPUTER blip could have messed up the statements of millions of credit card customers , it was revealed last night . |
| 11 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 12 | At one time you could have travelled up the Aspe valley by railway , and entered Spain through a tunnel five miles long under the final ridge . |
| 13 | He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty . |
| 14 | He is the sort of young player who should be encouraged ’ He believes Salisbury could have struck up a deadly partnership with Phil Tufnell . |
| 15 | I could n't have missed him , but I could have slowed down a bit . |
| 16 | He was sure , not only because he could have written out a set of instructions there and then , if he had had any paper , but because he could imagine all the minute details of doing those things . |
| 17 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 18 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |
| 19 | Well there 's the open , we could have gone up the . |
| 20 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 21 | If we could have turned over a living trilobite we would have seen an array of jointed legs on the underside , and flexible antennae . |
| 22 | Southend then enjoyed a revival but after 63 minutes Malkin could have tied up the points when set up by Aldridge but Sansome made an excellent save . |
| 23 | Here he could have seen out the war , but he , and Reg Wallace , another RAF evader , ‘ escaped ’ into France and joined the Maquis . |
| 24 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 25 | No theatre producer could have dreamed up a more dramatic introduction . |
| 26 | It was impossible that anyone could have torn out a brick through the wallpaper . |
| 27 | In the absence of deep-rooted democratic institutions which could have held back the force of aggressive nationalism , local groups took the form of mere channels through which the idea of the nation as an integrated family could be reproduced . |
| 28 | Crushed against him , Folly could no more have resisted than she could have held back the tides . |
| 29 | ‘ Nobody else could have thought up a trick like that ! |
| 30 | NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in . |