Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 2 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 3 | In the end , de Gaulle could only secure peace at the expense of a series of humiliating concessions to the FLN — concessions which could be justified only on the grounds that they averted the yet higher costs of not making them . |
| 4 | Shift work could also make attendance at ATB courses difficult though in one case a part-time farmer had given his local organiser a copy of his shift programme for the next six months ! |
| 5 | You could also hear music at home on a wind-up gramophone with ten- or twelve-inch 78 r.p.m. bakelite records . |
| 6 | Although the shifted maser could also produce emission at a frequency separated from the main features by twice the plasma frequency , no significant emission stronger than 51mJy ( 3 ) is found at . |
| 7 | Sunderland could virtually clinch safety at Brighton on Saturday , but Middlesbrough could face final-day drama at Wolves after losing the initiative to Leicester City in the battle for second spot . |
| 8 | And he could again seal victory at the 11th . |
| 9 | He called for a referendum on the limitation of French citizenship to Europeans and those of French blood ( as opposed to those born on French territory , who could currently claim citizenship at 18 ) . |