Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing General Francis could do , and because of his arthritis he could only sit with any comfort on a hard chair . |
| 2 | Such forces could obviously deal with any lesser adversary . |
| 3 | This form of letter could thus apply to any MAS activity if the client is not a corporate finance client . |
| 4 | Rather more serious , if you buy a new home before selling your existing one , you could be faced by a bridging loan problem , which with continuing high interest rates could soon eat into any profits you hope to realise on the exchange . |
| 5 | For visitors would stare at her , ask her questions , would talk and expect a reply , and Alida knew that she could say nothing , could not cope with any demands . |
| 6 | But he could not think of any other way to work safely . |
| 7 | Ten per cent could not think of any form . |
| 8 | Clara could not think of any scheme in which the man she had just seen could have been described as lovely , but she instantly invented one . |
| 9 | The farmer , who was a great coward , did n't like the idea of going back empty-handed to the tiger , but as he could not think of any other plan , he did as he was told . |
| 10 | She had behaved as if she was quite prepared to be Alain 's , and she could not think of any reply at all . |
| 11 | She could not think of any means of doing it without involving Andrew . |
| 12 | We can not be complacent , for progress marches on and inflation eats at our financing , but we can be proud of the Institution — and extend again our heartfelt thanks to the voluntary fund raisers and crews without whom it could not exist in any form . |
| 13 | But I have had patients who were so badly affected that they could not travel in any enclosed vehicle — car , bus or train — had to leave the bathroom door open while they bathed , could not enter a cinema , theatre or even a small local shop . |
| 14 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 15 | Yesterday company spokesman Andrew Lincoln said he could not comment on any individual case until he had investigated . |
| 16 | The character ‘ ? ’ , or ‘ wild card ’ character ( mentioned previously in section 3.4.1 ) is sometimes given as output from the pattern recogniser for letter positions where the recognition could not match with any known character encoding . |
| 17 | The social worker explored with Mrs J. the fact that she could not live with any of them again . |
| 18 | Again I felt fear and panic well up inside me , but again decided that this could not help in any way and would simply be a waste of the valuable energy which I would need to get through this difficult time . |
| 19 | I would not have entrusted , to use Jennie Lee 's pungent phrase , the conduct of a chip shop to him , least of all the nation 's international affairs , but I could not say with any firm conviction that they have necessarily been handled better by his successors of either party . |
| 20 | In reality the non-aligned states could not agree on any formula endorsing the Soviet proposals to neutralise the Persian Gulf since the primary Gulf states remained opposed to any security arrangement imposed by foreign powers . |
| 21 | While both agreed on condemnation of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , they could not agree on any common wording regarding the deployment of Western troops in the Gulf , which Syria supported but which was strongly attacked by Iranian hardliners . |
| 22 | The Lords of Trade did not have to take such a close interest in the activities of the chartered companies , but the three large companies trading outside Europe were clearly providing London with trade that could not come in any other way . |
| 23 | It was not just the natural fear of a cruel crucifixion : suffused with the divine life , the person of Jesus could not die in any ordinary sense . |
| 24 | It had a purity about it which he could not find in any part of himself . |
| 25 | It was held that the tailor could not sue for any money because the goods were not necessaries ; the minor was already well supplied with waistcoats . |
| 26 | I could not stick to any diet for very long because of the chocolate cravings . |
| 27 | His first step towards that freedom was to tell the Zoo authorities that he could not work inside any of the cages or buildings or go where animals were confined . |
| 28 | If there was anything here that came to him from his father , it could be nowhere but in the church , and he had never yet been allowed past the gate-towers , and could not believe in any such concession now . |
| 29 | Suppose we numbered all the character positions in the book and we could easily move to any character position . |
| 30 | Would not the worst thing that could possibly happen for any of our constituents or patients be for the Labour party to come to power and abolish competitive tendering ? |