Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In episode three , the script required this seasoned gourmet to turn to his wife with the wide-eyed enquiry : ‘ Annie , what exactly IS a truffle ? ’ before scampering to open a reference book on the kitchen table so that the camera could zoom in on the illustration . |
| 2 | I could double up on the first hit and get better odds . ’ |
| 3 | At worst , one could fall back on the immediate family of brothers and cousins to protect the individual , if only by helping to pay up to meet the demands of the tax collector . |
| 4 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 5 | This way they they could tip over on the grass verge could n't they ? |
| 6 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 7 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 8 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 9 | Only the score and what we could work out on the piano and what we were able to hear in the opera-house from singers like Mayr . |
| 10 | Carolyn lay on her side , spine curved , head right on the edge of the bed so that she could stare down on the baby in its cot beside her . |
| 11 | About half an hour before the return of the aircraft on operational nights we would wake up the duty Met Officer , who was usually snoozing in the ante-room , so that he could mug up on the weather situation before the first of the returning crews came in . |
| 12 | We could go up on the railway sidings . ’ |
| 13 | Wood engravings can accompany type , and so once again pictures could go back on the page ; they were also very durable , so that runs of hundreds of thousands were possible . |
| 14 | You could , you could go back on the Permitabs if you want . |
| 15 | Then we could go down on the line and wave it , ’ said Peter . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , puppies in particular may rush out through the door in this situation , often ignoring the visitor , and could end up on the road . |
| 17 | Next day , the clan met out on the shore , where Eachuinn Odhar could stand up on the rocks among his officers , Donald Crubach at his side , and speak to all together . |
| 18 | He remembered it from childhood , a lugubrious , undistinguished tune which , as a ten-year-old , he could pick out on the drawing-room piano . |
| 19 | You could come down on the the first half and I can jump and that 's like Wrestle Mania . |
| 20 | Phillips thinks the research councils could lose out on the transfer . |
| 21 | Private investors would only be in an equally good position as institutions if they owned Topic screens and could get through on the phone to their broker as quickly as the big fund manager . |
| 22 | Whether this one could get back on the screen , I do n't know . |
| 23 | Whether this one could get back on the screen , I do n't know . |
| 24 | We had to make the game all-ticket so no-one came thinking they could get in on the day . |
| 25 | Funny I used to sleep on the side of banks , you could dig out on the banks , sleep , sit on the oh yeah . |