Example sentences of "could [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be , it could be erm it could right in the middle could n't it dad ? |
| 2 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 3 | just pure inset , and just headquarters , that 's all they 're interested in , not whether he knows his job or not , not whether he could give advice because he has no control over whatever comes into that shop , he does n't decide we 're not having these T-shirts in or , or we 're not having these suits in because really they 're a load of rubbish , headquarters decides it , all he does is put a nice little display out , usually , and it 's shown how to do it by headquarters and so on , these people come round and show them what to do and so on , do all that , in fact he 's as much expertise in there as I have or you have , anybody could literally with a bit of training in the company way of doing things |
| 4 | An alternative would therefore be to use a UK-resident Newco for the share/debenture exchange and , to circumvent the capital gains tax disadvantage of this , it could soon after the acquisition transfer its stake in Target to the partnership by way of a capital distribution , leaving it with the loan-note obligations to the vendor shareholders and the cash to meet such obligations . |
| 5 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 6 | On occasion he tried to recruit the Pope into his efforts , and the Americans in general could never understand why the Pope-like Ayatollah ( ’ His Holiness the Imam ’ ) could not with a snap of his fingers , get the hostages released . |
| 7 | Section 33 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 , even if it applies to composite rate tax , is not applicable for a number of reasons , not least that no valid assessment could be made under an invalid regulation , that no assessment was in fact made and that , even if made , the assessment could not on the facts of the present case have been said to be ‘ excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return : ’ section 33(1) . |
| 8 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 9 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 10 | He could not for the life of him understand why they should wish to remain inside the cottage while the Domain was dusted with poisons . |
| 11 | Mahmoud , incoherent with fury , could not for the moment say what it was . |
| 12 | Disoriented , she could not for an instant even locate her daughter . |
| 13 | Subject to some exceptions … it matters not that the doer of the act of usurpation did not know , and could not by the exercise of any reasonable care have known of his neighbour 's interest in the goods . |
| 14 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 15 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 16 | And Rosalba roused her heavy , hollow limbs and submitted to the tasks , finding in the repetitiousness of domestic labours a lulling routine that could still for a time the kind of sickness she had contracted . |
| 17 | But this novel has not just one but two barmen who could also at a pinch be hailed as lords of language . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 19 | How much more wrong could Back To The Planet be ? |
| 20 | Lee could n't with the dog . |
| 21 | As I heard the words I knew they were wrong , but could n't for the life of me remember the dolmen 's proper name . |
| 22 | The Marshal could n't for the life of him remember that . |
| 23 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 24 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |
| 25 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 26 | Harris knew that something had happened but he could n't for the life of him think what it might be . |
| 27 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 28 | I could n't for the life of me understand what Emily Lightbody might see in him , except an eternal good time . |
| 29 | Guy had always liked tall women , preferably those built on rather buxom lines , but right now he could n't for the life of him remember why . |
| 30 | There had to be something she could say , something sharp and snappy , tailor-made to disabuse him of that idea , but was n't it just typical that she could n't for the life of her think what it was ? |