Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey . |
| 2 | He looked anything but gratified , and she could only marvel at Araminta 's inability to see how unwelcome was the good fortune that had come to him . |
| 3 | when did one team have two keepers sent-off in the same game … it could only happen at Hereford … |
| 4 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 5 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 6 | She could not settle at school , ran away from home on several occasions and spent most of her time alone . |
| 7 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 8 | I could not stay at home and write a novel because I feel too tired and run down , and need a break from mental activity . |
| 9 | By the Tuesday of the first week , Cassie knew that she could not stay at Rose Cottage any longer . |
| 10 | Attempts to prove that canals were safer than railways , and , ‘ a man could not live at speeds greater than 30 miles an hour ’ , were doomed to failure . |
| 11 | But I could not play at Wolves without knowing I could do a reasonable job . ’ |
| 12 | McCoist could not train at McDiarmid Park yesterday , which made him no different from half of Roxburgh 's squad , but is healing at an encouraging rate . |
| 13 | The National Front , where most leading opponents had grouped , could not operate at home , but it re-formed abroad . |
| 14 | THE NEW trainer of Brightness , the recaptured Beluga whale , said yesterday she was against keeping wild animals captive , but she supported his return to Crimea , because he could not survive at sea . |
| 15 | Which accusation nobody could ever level at Jeffrey Bernard . |
| 16 | ‘ When the children are out at school I could n't stay at home all day , ’ she says . |
| 17 | I could n't sleep at Jamila 's place any more for fear of having to face Changez . |
| 18 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 19 | It th , I was depressed , I had swe sweats , night sweats and my husband was all , he could n't sleep at night and it changed it completely ! |
| 20 | Now he 's about to get the follow-up treatment he could n't get at home . |
| 21 | otherwise they could n't get at things properly . |
| 22 | She could n't look at Lucy 's face . |
| 23 | You 'd go mad if you could n't smile at things , you 'd go mad without a sense of humour . |
| 24 | And I believe that if none proves acceptable , he could even remain at Anfield on a week-to-week contract . |
| 25 | The precedents for this kind of poem go back to the seventeenth century , and one could usefully look at Pope 's Windsor Forest or Dyer 's Grongar Hill . |
| 26 | Mr Tudball told a meeting of the exchange 's ship-broking members they could either remain at Lloyd 's of London or move to the old Billingsgate fish market in the meantime . |
| 27 | Sally-Anne put up her hands again , could barely look at Dr Neil . |
| 28 | This can make those rare beings quite boring — an accusation you could never level at Jack . |
| 29 | One reason was for communications , but another reason that was rather intriguing to scientists was that they could actually look at stars and look at the space between the stars and use a different region of the spectrum , in particular the radio region . |