Example sentences of "could [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite much rebuilding and the need for dogged perseverance by Holroyd Smith and his supporters , his conduit line although equipped with primitive electrical apparatus , handled everything Blackpool 's crowds and the sea could throw at it until 1899 , when it was converted to the cheaper overhead line method now used . |
| 2 | She felt she could gaze at him for ever . |
| 3 | ‘ I could look at you across a room full of people , and still make you weak with longing . ’ |
| 4 | The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye . |
| 5 | You could poke at it with a screwdriver or a piece of wire and wipe it with a piece of rag . |
| 6 | There was a girl called Carmen , she was the queen Reject , she just let me hang around with them so she could sneer at me for being a moony . |