Example sentences of "could [verb] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When patterns were pencilled on by hand , good workwomen could earn £2 a week , although most received much less . |
| 2 | It was a wise move at a time of economic depression , when a player could earn £8 a week at most in the winter and £6 in summer . |
| 3 | Machine tools of its size and accuracy were so rare at that time that it could earn £10 a day , and it was Clement 's principal source of income for ten years . |
| 4 | In his famous survey of 1849 Henry Mayhew found that the memory of the sawyers reached back through better days up to 1826 before the saw mills proliferated , to the even more lucrative times of their fathers , when sawyers could earn £1 a day . |
| 5 | Zarina , whose family come from Pakistan , could make £900 a night entertaining groups of rich Asian businessmen . |
| 6 | An injury on Scotland 's current tour of America and Canada could win Falconer a call-up for the June 10–26 championships . |
| 7 | An injury on Scotland 's current tour of America and Canada could win Falconer a call-up for the June 10–26 championships . |
| 8 | Nicolaus speculates that this could give ecologists a method of controlling predation on eggs of rare birds . |
| 9 | Wimbledon could give Arsenal a lift by continuing their jinx on Liverpool . |
| 10 | You could give nanny a lift . |
| 11 | ‘ You never know , it could do business a power of good . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Could do wiv a pal , since my friend Lottie went into service up West . |
| 13 | It saved some bacon here and was a morale booster there — after all , it could have bee a lot worse . |
| 14 | After this , no one could call Zacchaeus a sinner again . |
| 15 | If they want to be on their own , they could go book a chalet down on beach . |
| 16 | A new contract between Equity and the IPA came into force during 1979 which meant that ‘ repeat ’ fees — the fees paid to an artist for each showing of a commercial — were increased fourfold , so that repeat fees for one actor for a fairly heavily used commercial could reach £20000 a year . |
| 17 | He thought he could write Crowe a parody at once elegant and shocking . |
| 18 | By taking the right measures , every home could save £100 a year and reduce its annual carbon dioxide contribution by 1.5 tons , a cut of 20 per cent . |
| 19 | The European proposals , which could add $10 a barrel to the price of oil by the end of the century , were also opposed by large-scale energy users claiming that their businesses would be hampered if other trading partners did not introduce similar measures . |
| 20 | I quite like somewhere I could get uhum a cover for the bed to match . |
| 21 | The market for Casodex could exceed $100m a year . |
| 22 | He could offer mademoiselle a taste of Cointreau , Grand Marnier , Chartreuse , if she really had no berth . |
| 23 | Perhaps while Mr is studying er that piece of paper , I could ask Mr a question ? |
| 24 | ‘ Biddy , ’ I said , when we were alone , ‘ do n't you think you could teach Joe a bit ? ’ |