Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could build up a knowledge of who he was , piece by piece . |
| 2 | As the band were good enough live , we could build up a ground swell of interest at a local level which then translated into national success . |
| 3 | If you could make up a sentence with those . |
| 4 | Ever wish you could make up a degree course to suit your own needs ? |
| 5 | She could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 6 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 7 | I could make out a couple of dozen large buildings . |
| 8 | Both sides could make out a case that they deserved to win and should have been awarded penalties . |
| 9 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 10 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 11 | I could make out a sort of close-fitting purple cap on the back of her head . |
| 12 | With his money and our soul we could think up a scheme to please everybody . |
| 13 | He still feels he could eke out a result without him . |
| 14 | However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series . |
| 15 | A successful tour is the priority — the icing on the cake would come if wife , Wendy , could hang on a week or so for the birth of their second child due a month before the end of the tour . ‘ |
| 16 | Citing " informed Sudanese sources " the Egyptian paper Al-Sharq al-Awsat of Feb. 6 reported that 41 military officers had been arrested on Feb. 2 before they could carry out a plan to bomb the general staff headquarters during a meeting of the country 's military leaders . |
| 17 | Some of the men had brought ropes and small axes with them so that , while they were in the forest , they could carry back a load of firewood rather than returning empty-handed if they did n't get the boar . |
| 18 | ‘ It was like a collective , you could either buy the porn through the mail , or you could send in a tape of yourself and get plugged into the apparatus that way , ’ explains David James , a film professor at the University of Southern California , who has researched the phenomenon . |
| 19 | I remember that it could whack a fist-sized stone well over the creek and twenty metres or more into the undulating ground on the mainland , and once I got keyed into its natural rhythm I could send off a shot every two seconds . |
| 20 | Who did I think I was imagining glibly that I could bring up a child all by myself ? |
| 21 | On Aug. 13 , 1989 , Richard Darman , head of the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) , publicly warned that high interest rates could bring about a recession , but such differences of opinion were played down on Oct. 13 by the Secretary of the Treasury , Nicholas Brady . |
| 22 | If the forces unleashed are sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia and corruption they could bring about a transformation which will have even greater impact and importance than the development of the NHS in Britain . |
| 23 | To think that you could bring about a utopia , and perfect human nature in one way or another , is really a wildly er , optimistic and er , is in itself , er , some kind of illusion . |
| 24 | The support of business could bring about a review of 16–19 education with the intention of integration of the pre-vocational and applied together with the academic curriculum . |
| 25 | Various happenings that could bring about a shift into Creole were mentioned , including " talking to my Grandma about some of these teachers " . |
| 26 | Her fingers reached up to entwine in the clean curl of his black hair , every part of her aching shamelessly to be discovered and touched , by this one man who could whip up a storm in her heart … |
| 27 | But not even Barnes could break down a Springbok side able to absorb the most intense pressure and punish every error . |
| 28 | If I speak out loud my breath hangs in the candle-light , just as though one could snap off a word in a mistily solidified lump as soon as it has been said . |
| 29 | I thought I could look around a bit more , and that Gus would always be there if I changed my mind . ’ |
| 30 | I could ring up a colleague in New York . ’ |