Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had killed her father and now Broom-Parker could presumably have something similar planned for her . |
| 2 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity . |
| 3 | Like her failure to realise , or even to care , that her indifference to other people 's convenience and comfort could eventually leave her friendless in a cold world . |
| 4 | All the East European countries stressed their commitment to the construction of market economies which could eventually replace their existing centralized systems , and all appealed for increased assistance while changes were in progress . |
| 5 | Edward II had tried to suppress tournaments , because he feared that they might be used as occasions to form political conspiracies against the court , but his son now encouraged them as occasions when king and nobles could together demonstrate their knightly prowess . |
| 6 | His great sermons warned of the dangers of being controversial and subjective but confirmed that the movies could greatly increase their emotional power as a story-telling medium by developing a surer sense of society . |
| 7 | The portrait , he thought , must have been even more powerful than he realized if it could so dominate his physical reaction to the living woman . |
| 8 | So if we could all try our best to get here at eight o' clock . |
| 9 | And er we could all get it wrong , and we could be in the E R M , i if we go back into the E R M then er you know if they stabilize interest rates across Europe er then we could be okay . |
| 10 | Then with about 7 minutes to go , Goodmans speed got through the defence again and Beeny could only parry his low shot for Gray ( there was about 5 of them on the pitch ) to tap in . |
| 11 | Staying on in Denmark could only bring her further pain in the long run . |
| 12 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 13 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 14 | In field after field the government was forced to change course , earning a reputation for dishonesty and lack of principle that , when allied to Lloyd George 's prior reputation , could only do him great damage . |
| 15 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 16 | You know , but i if we could n't , if they we as they said , if they wanted that money back tomorrow we could only give them half that money back because of what we 've got |
| 17 | He could only regard her existential pain as a cup of instant coffee to be sweetened with saccharin . |
| 18 | When he could talk , he could only remember one stranger that night . |
| 19 | Lined up along the south of the field , the crowd could only see her left side . |
| 20 | Edberg could only rue his squandered chances , especially in the crucial tie break which he gifted to his 22-year-old opponent 11–9 with a disastrous double fault . |
| 21 | As a BBC employee , Whitaker could only receive his monthly salary . |
| 22 | A look at her burning cheeks could only prove her reciprocated desire . |
| 23 | ( viii ) Each site could only access its own employees ' records . |
| 24 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 25 | But she could scarcely tell him that . |
| 26 | He could scarcely believe his good fortune . |
| 27 | She could scarcely believe it all . |
| 28 | She could finally drop her hated nickname Bruiser ! |
| 29 | CAR buyers could soon choose their new models by watching a video at home . |
| 30 | A five year old boy from Bosnia who 's paralysed from the waist down could soon take his first steps with the aid of calipers . |