Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 2 | You could 've heard a critic smile ! |
| 3 | In the old days he could 've swallowed a six-pack in half an hour and then gone out and walked a tightrope . |
| 4 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 5 | I could 've made a fortune flogging beads to hippies . ’ |
| 6 | She could 've smoked ci er cigarillos , she could 've smoked a pipe , yeah , erm tt with regards to working , you did ask did she work but is sh she is a tax payer , she was n't because it 's pin money . |
| 7 | All the money we spent on this stuff , ’ she indicated her drink , ’ could 've floated a battleship over the years . ’ |
| 8 | If only could have stayed behind to hear this being said , he could 've taken a lot of messages back to his friends in government . |
| 9 | Or they could 've got a plane to Paris , nobody would have stopped them . |
| 10 | You should of said , I could 've borrowed a chair . |
| 11 | ‘ We could 've had a pizza in town , ’ she reminded him . |
| 12 | Nine months and five days , you could 've had a baby by now . |
| 13 | Though her lungs were aflame with her efforts , she rolled over and set off into the darkness of the tunnel that led outside before anyone could think to send a boat for her — though at least there were hiding places here in case they did . |
| 14 | Where receivables in a particular currency are sufficiently large , an exporter could consider using a Currency Option to hedge an exposure . |
| 15 | If , furthermore , you wished to sell us a narrow strip of your garden to allow the shelter to be set back a little from the pavement , we could consider providing a fence along your full frontage as part of the accommodation works . |
| 16 | The jurist could consider holding a trust to be valid where the beneficiary was the same , although the trustee liable had in fact changed . |
| 17 | If cigarette smoke is unavoidable , you could consider hiring an air filter for a while ( see p 335 ) . |
| 18 | Other methods of evaluation could include interviewing a sample of consumers in the target market ( eg to check if they had seen the promotion , changed their buying habits etc ) , and checking on dealers ' stock-levels , shelf-space etc . |
| 19 | They would allow people that they thought they could trust to accumulate a lot of debt on it . |
| 20 | You could choose to inspect a sample of cases that are chosen by the inspecting lawyer . |
| 21 | Under this offer shareholders could choose to receive an amount in new ordinary shares equivalent to 10.65 pence for each ordinary share they held , instead of the recommended final cash dividend of 7.1 pence per ordinary share . |
| 22 | Miss Taylor , you must have had a very eventful life — if you could choose to live a part of that life again , which decade would you choose ? |
| 23 | It was well received by the electorate and , with a cooperative Democratic Congress behind him , he could expect to implement a majority of the plan 's ideas . |
| 24 | Men and women born between 1910–12 could expect to live an average 53 years . |
| 25 | With savings of £20,000 you could expect to finance a franchise with a start-up cost and working capital of £60,000 . |
| 26 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 27 | There must be , he thought , some key , some crack in this mystery he could use to achieve an answer . |
| 28 | Anybody who could sew had a collection on show and fashion ruled . |
| 29 | Instead of converting the programs from one machine code to another , we could envisage writing a program for the new computer to simulate the old computer at the instruction level . |
| 30 | A few years ago one could begin to glimpse a series of ‘ cushions ’ as IBM began to bring in more consultants , more temps , more part-timers , more student projects . |