Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In these hot summer months prudent Japanese girls suppress the potential faux pas of erect nipples that could spring up from a cool blast of the air-conditioner by sticking on a handy pair of ‘ Nipples ’ . |
| 2 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 3 | Afraid that she might have hurt Nora , who was sitting very quietly , Louise added , ‘ Of course , she 'll miss you but I do think she could stay on for a little longer , to see what might happen . ’ |
| 4 | But he could cash in with a lucrative return against the 24-year-old German early next year . |
| 5 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 6 | So , for example , your High Elf army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Wood Elves chosen from the Wood Elf list , or Dwarfs chosen from the Dwarfs list . |
| 7 | So , for example , your Orc and Goblin army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Dark Elves chosen from the Dark Elf list , or Chaos chosen from the Chaos list . |
| 8 | So , for example , your Empire army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Wood Elves chosen from the Wood Elf list , or Dwarfs chosen from the Dwarf list . |
| 9 | So I could jump out of an aeroplane and fire a machine gun . |
| 10 | Though she found it hard to judge his age , he had a look of unabashed power that only years of experience could brand on to a man 's face . |
| 11 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 12 | From this room she could see out through a wide window into a dense stand of woodland , which seemed to crowd together , not quite hiding a track leading to a small cave . |
| 13 | As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi . |
| 14 | You could splash out on a kingsize Strata waterbed costing around £2,800 . |
| 15 | Having set the process of achieving an ever closer economic union once more in motion , almost inevitably concern arose in some quarters over the possibility that this could spill over into a closer political union . |
| 16 | You could fit in in a number of ways . |
| 17 | A Midlands source said last night : ‘ Forest could move in with a £1m plus bid . ’ |
| 18 | Heston 's the only man who could drop out of a cubic moon — he 's so square [ very hip talk for 1964 ! ] . |
| 19 | You could sign up for a series of courses , which you could take at your own pace . |
| 20 | Alternatively , ask if you could top up with a repayment loan . |
| 21 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 22 | Results will be given as quickly as possible , but some experts fear they could take up to a month if demand is high . |
| 23 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 24 | By such primitive methods , the volume of gas necessary to carry one or two people aloft , could take up to a day and a half to produce . |
| 25 | However , it could take up to a week before he can open his eyes . |
| 26 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 27 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 28 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |
| 29 | She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted . |
| 30 | and whereas before we could walk round in a on a circular route , Yeah that 's Walk . |