Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought he could jolly well do it better than Hoomey and co : he could swim and run , at least , which was halfway there , and he bet he could learn riding quicker than them . |
| 2 | Er in relation to King Street er car park , there are there are complications in relation to er the usage of the car parking spaces erm and the health centre and on street car parking erm and we are going to do er further work in surveying the usage of those spaces and how we could perhaps better allocate them to ensure that there are erm spaces available for people who need to get to the surgery and the subcommittee will be reporting back to the council . |
| 3 | I could so clearly see her coming between you and me , between us and our poetry , and I felt furiously jealous and unhappy but tried not to show it . |
| 4 | And with her jealousy came anger that he could so easily hold her in a close embrace while he still had Doreen in his system . |
| 5 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 6 | But why would a man like Ipuky go to such lengths , when , if he felt that Huy was a threat , he could so easily have him killed ? |
| 7 | She tried to look down at her feet , and could only just see them . |
| 8 | The sound was so soft that I could only just hear it . |
| 9 | You could only really believe it if the fire behind him was about 100 yards away he 'd be frying ! ’ |
| 10 | We made our place the upper glens and moorlands of Scotland in the north where Men could less easily find us . |
| 11 | But even more secret , so secret that I could scarcely even admit it to myself , was my sense of inadequacy . |
| 12 | Frederica was put in mind , mutatis mutandis , starting with the intention , of Miss Havisham bidding the boy Pip to play , of the brewery yard where he had met Herbert Pocket , which ( the yard ) irked her , because she could not properly visualise it . |
| 13 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 14 | A refusal in such circumstances may well not reflect my employer 's true feelings on the matter , but once having sustained such a dismissal , I could not easily bring it up again . |
| 15 | There was no need to run , for he knew they would be following the horses , and on the highway he could not easily lose them . |
| 16 | Secondly , for historical reasons we did not hold records of National Insurance numbers on the payroll file ( and could not easily add them ) . |
| 17 | My free wing hung from the pole for I could not easily close it without terrible pain ; my eyes were fixed on them . |
| 18 | I could not simply invite you to visit me , situated as you are . ’ |
| 19 | Jasmine was like many horses : sold as a three-year-old because her owner had found that he could not successfully train her . |
| 20 | But he could not say Vivien 's name then , he could not even think it , only look about him fearfully , clenching his hands . |
| 21 | How could such a proud gentleman be so much in the power of one of his servants that he could not even punish her for trying to kill him ? |
| 22 | From their lofty height of existence , it was as if they could not even see him . |
| 23 | She could not even ask him , why ? |
| 24 | She could not even say she truly felt she had had Ferdinando with her those four months . |
| 25 | Fool that he was , he escaped her — his dancing was so much superior to her own that she could not even praise it . |
| 26 | That I could not ever blame her . |
| 27 | Even this kind of intervention in the productive process could not long survive him : the means of musical production were taken more and more into the hands of large commercial interests , while parody as a method retreated into informal niches in the fabric of working-class life . |
| 28 | She knew you could not possibly manage it all on your own . |
| 29 | I could not possibly tell him the truth , as that would scare the daylights out of him . |
| 30 | But I felt I could not possibly meet him again . |