Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it was too much for him to understand ; he could stay here for years and never understand it . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the Elector Carl Theodor had taken up residence in Munich , and had invited the members of his court to join him there ( though they could stay on at Mannheim and retain their salaries if they wished ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Could … do you think you could stay away from Taipei for a while , Luke ? ’ |
| 4 | Because there is little wind that high to split the particles up , it could stay there for years . |
| 5 | When Loz finds the solutions to the problems that clearly weigh heavy on his shoulders — and a new hairdresser — the Kingmaker campaign could wind up at Wembley . |
| 6 | Lexandro grinned wildly , for within but a few more weeks he was to have holes drilled through his carapace so that he could jack in to power armour . |
| 7 | It was a high one , but although she was confident she could climb it , she knew that if she tried to do so she would risk being seen from the house ; but beside it was a shallow grassy ditch were she could remain out of sight , so bending double she ran along this ditch , and came to the spot where she had seen Tristram . |
| 8 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 9 | At a time when a skilled worker earned about £2 a week , a footballer could earn up to £8 . |
| 10 | Already a giant American sports management group reckon that Christie could earn up to £1million for each of the next four years . |
| 11 | ‘ We ( the Design Department ) got asked by the Producer of Blue Peter to come up with a full-size Dalek that children could build easily at home for about 10/6d . |
| 12 | Doubts could arise only about matters of , as it were , taste , such as manners and morals , where simple quantitative accumulation provided no guidance There could be no question that men in 1860 knew more than ever before , but whether they were ‘ better ’ could not be demonstrated in the same way . |
| 13 | The consultants estimated that the annual savings could range up to £192 million . |
| 14 | His curiosity was short-lived , for he could think only of Beth . |
| 15 | Surely no one could think better of Jason for the quoted remarks ? |
| 16 | I guess I was trying to earn a couple of lowlife brownie points , so I could catch up with Steve and Paul 's criminal pedigree . |
| 17 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 18 | Former Middlesbrough midfielder Mark Burke could line up for Wolves . |
| 19 | The method of ‘ verstehen ’ could be quite insufficiently explanatory , or could fall back for explanation on a ( theoretically circular ) ‘ informing spirit ’ . |
| 20 | You could fall out at night . ’ |
| 21 | How ludicrous , after all , to have imagined that the great Count Romano de Sciorto , of Casa Sciorto , of the Città Notabile , the Noble City , could fall seriously in love with her . |
| 22 | YOU COULD WIN UP TO £100,000 |
| 23 | YOU COULD WIN UP TO £125,000 |
| 24 | People under pressure could act out of character , certainly , but they also acted according to habit . |
| 25 | With his connections , there was still a good chance Balestre could hang on to power . |
| 26 | Missions would have to approved unanimously and any member state could opt out of participation . |
| 27 | As for Peter and Pat Lawford , they fixed it so that John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe could screw around without Jackie finding out . |
| 28 | Scottish villages were so frequently attacked and burned , and were so lacking in adequate fortified protection , that farmers and small gentry could survive only by building stone tower houses with barmkins , or walled enclosures . |
| 29 | One could survive only by silence and a strict refusal of complicity . |
| 30 | During the civil war , Palestinian guerrillas moved into the far more impressive fortress of Beaufort on the heights above the Litani River , from where they could gaze deep into Israel — or into Palestine as they would insist — and shell the Lebanese Christian villages in between . |