Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 2 | The treatment can offset some effects of menopause , including brittle bone disease — osteoporosis — but the study reveals that the wrong kind of HRT could expose them to the risk of womb cancer . |
| 3 | She was Labour , she said , but was n't sure she could make it to the polls . |
| 4 | ‘ You could make it to the end now , and I 'll tell old Sam you 've done a length . ’ |
| 5 | With fifteen laps to go , the race was his : if he could make it to the end . |
| 6 | She sincerely hoped that she could make it to the track before any car came because she knew exactly what a mess she looked . |
| 7 | Leonora watched him go with mixed feelings , not really sure she could make it to the bathroom alone , despite her fine words . |
| 8 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 9 | There was no danger now , he could enjoy it to the full . |
| 10 | Well I could screw it to the wall . |
| 11 | Inside her she felt a power she could never manage to express ; it was trapped inside her like water under the ground and she was the only one with the dowser 's twigs who knew where it lay and could bring it to the surface . |
| 12 | If I could refer you to the block beneath there on carry forwards , you started this year , bringing forward savings and under-spendings and various other contingencies of just over one and half million . |
| 13 | Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again . |
| 14 | Matters arising through the procedure from any individual or any group of individuals on the shop floor , was dealt with primarily and respectfully so in regard to the individual making an approach to the foreman , if no settlement was reached then , it was referred to the shop steward in that department , if he could n't settle it along with the member with the foreman , then he could report it to the er shop stewards committee through the auspices of the secretary or the convenor . |
| 15 | But we could sell it to the wine merchants themselves and still make a handsome profit . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Singh could take him to the bus when he was on late shifts and collect him on early shifts . |
| 17 | I called my mum and dad and asked if they could take me to the hospital . |
| 18 | The dealer asked the proprietor of the shop if he could take it to the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin-Dahlem for an opinion and authentication , and was given the picture . |
| 19 | You could take it to the kitchen and put it under the grill of the electric cooker in order to get it hot , without knowing why it should be hot . |
| 20 | You could drag them to the pitch but you could n't make them perform . |
| 21 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 22 | AN anonymous phone call to police could lead them to the mother of the newborn baby boy abandoned on a golf course . |
| 23 | The court heard that Jones scoured the Penrhys estate after the burglary and took his friends to Mr Penrose 's house because he believed he could lead them to the culprits . |
| 24 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 25 | Robyn opened her mouth , but before she could put it to the test he clamped a hot sweaty palm over her lips . |
| 26 | ‘ You could put it to the test in a very few minutes , my lord . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Andy , do you think you could drive me to the Sugar Bar ? ’ |
| 28 | My lecture had to be cut short , so that could drive me to the airport to catch the evening flight to Delhi . |
| 29 | I think 't is best if we could get him to the hospital . |
| 30 | By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code . |