Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she could stay just the one night , then look for something cheaper in the morning . |
| 2 | Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later . |
| 3 | But one day she asked if she could stay out the whole day , and away she went on her little pony , with her two dogs running behind . |
| 4 | Changes in stratospheric water vapour due to changes in methane and stratosphere-troposphere exchange could affect both the radiative budget and the temperature of PSC formation . |
| 5 | Perhaps over the generations the interaction between a particular cultural context and the energy pattern at a place could build up a strong image or archetype . |
| 6 | Like animals , they are great levellers — not remotely impressed by a string of titles — and he always found he could build up a good rapport with them . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe we could build up the parliamentary group to more than 100 members . ’ |
| 8 | González could deliver neither the central UGT demand of either full(ish) employment nor adequate welfare protection . |
| 9 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 10 | She could make just a small detour … |
| 11 | And now it was out of its glass frame he could make out a faded signature at the bottom : |
| 12 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 13 | I could make out a younger Conchis in the centre , wearing a straw hat and shorts , and there was one woman , a peasant-woman , though not Maria , because she was Maria 's age in the photo and it was plainly twenty or thirty years old . |
| 14 | He could see that the flap of cloth gaped open , but in the dark could make out no more than the vague shape of her legs , her stomach . |
| 15 | He strained his eyes but could make out no more than the vague outline of Ngo Van Loc 's face in the darkness . |
| 16 | All the internal doors were open and she could make out the tumbled travel bags she had left half-packed and which now spilled their contents across the room . |
| 17 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 18 | His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs . |
| 19 | Even on the darkest night , by the light which the sea seemed mysteriously to absorb and reflect , he could make out the splendid fifteenth-century west tower of Happisburgh Church , that embattled symbol of man 's precarious defences against this most dangerous of seas . |
| 20 | After a couple of hundred yards the jungle thinned , and I could make out the towering white cliffs of the apartments building . |
| 21 | For , if I am the world ’ — we were heading down again , his nails digging into my flesh , I could make out the Eastern Mediterranean — ‘ then the world must be real . |
| 22 | Even at this distance he could make out the faint octarine glow in the air that must be indicating a stable magic aura of at least — he gasped — several milliprime ? |
| 23 | Their vision was by now more adapted to the darkness , and silhouetted against the glow of the fires , they could make out the black bulk of the castle . |
| 24 | From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry . |
| 25 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 26 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 27 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 28 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |
| 29 | It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt . |
| 30 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |