Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea burst into her mind , a sudden radiant solution , that she could rush along to the pet shop at lunchtime and apologize , ask him to forgive her and make everything all right . |
| 2 | If it could bring its cost-effectiveness nearer the average , it could recruit up to the establishment that the Home Secretary has recommended . ’ |
| 3 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 4 | I could sidle up to the hi-fi and turn it off , snap on the light-switch and announce quite calmly to all the sycophants here that Luke Denner is nothing more than a callous murderer . |
| 5 | I would therefore be grateful if you could refer back to the letter I wrote and respond as best you can . |
| 6 | It would be logical to expect an author to cite his thesis in his first related paper , so that readers could refer back to the original source . |
| 7 | Occasionally , we could look back to The Smiths . |
| 8 | Even then the older amongst them could look back to the early 1790s when debate about , and the practice of , abstention from slave-grown colonial sugar was claimed by Clarkson to have drawn in about 300,000 families . |
| 9 | and there was a hole er on the floor over there with a grating on it that was you could see through to the ground . |
| 10 | Across the Bristol Channel we could see over to the cliffs of North Devon , while off to the west Carmarthen Bay and the Pembrokeshire coast stretched out into the distance . |
| 11 | From here I found , as I had hoped , that I could see down to the shore at the point where Neil had told me he wanted to work . |
| 12 | Basic Stable Management , is designed as an introductory course and students could follow on to the Senior Horsemaster Course 1 and then onto the Senior Horsemasters Course 2 which is an equivalent level of study to the BHS Stage IV . |
| 13 | She found that she could tune in to the nature spirits and devas overlighting particular species and areas of landscape . |
| 14 | Before 1950 there was no regional TV station or transmitter : only Parisians could pick up a TV signal ; in 1958 only 50 per cent of the population could tune in to the one black-and-white TV channel . |
| 15 | Why , she asked , did n't they form a small subcommittee to inquire into the identity of this young author , and , when they had discovered it , they could report back to the rest of the members , and they could then discuss what action should be taken . |
| 16 | This is the finest war memorial you could set up to the men who gave their lives , their limbs , or their health , and those who lost their dear ones in the country 's cause . |
| 17 | Feminist psychology tries to get round women 's occasional lower scores on such traits by suggesting how , with the right experience and environment , they could measure up to the male-oriented norms . |
| 18 | Nothing and no one could measure up to the beautiful goodness , attractive goodness she saw in its ideal perfection in Jesus Christ . |
| 19 | Charlie had left me with only two choices : I could try to run the baker 's shop myself and give up any thought of taking a degree , or I could sell out to the highest bidder . |
| 20 | One more block and she could hop on to the bus which would take her to Grand Central Station . |
| 21 | You could ride up to the vista points and look along 12. watch the sun light up the pollution . |
| 22 | George Washington , a Virginia gentleman whose home at Mount Vernon was quite close to the salt water of Chesapeake Bay , could ride off to the frontier with no difficulty and acquire land to sell to future settlers . |
| 23 | We could walk round to the stables , if you do not object to it — I can vouch for it that the grass is not wet — and then perhaps Miss Araminta will not hear as the horses will not come to the front door . ’ |
| 24 | She did n't think she could walk on to the catwalk twice ; once was going to take all the courage she had . |
| 25 | said of driving all the way back round to collect them , he said I could walk down to the Jolly Farmers |
| 26 | She was glad when her work was done and she could walk back to the farm , filling her lungs with the keen moorland air . |
| 27 | thing you could pass on to the police and they could take it up with the local council . |
| 28 | It snowed for three days without stopping , great cotton wool flakes , falling from a dark sky and swirling so thickly and blindingly that Mr Evans actually said the children need not use the privy in the yard in the daytime but could go up to the bathroom whenever they needed to . |
| 29 | but it meant people could go up to the box office and take a tape recorder and sit and listen to them |
| 30 | We could go over to the Amsterdam and have a drink . ’ |