Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy . |
| 2 | a derivative of it , which gave you the same high that ecstasy does and er , and if you did n't it from the doctor you could buy it on the street . |
| 3 | ‘ My office sought to arrange an interview with the Secretary of State for Employment so I could brief her on the situation . |
| 4 | We could hang them on the walls . |
| 5 | I thought we could hang something on the fact that one of the most enduring sexual icons of the age was in fact what today would be called — uh — big . ’ |
| 6 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |
| 7 | The brochure also would have outlined a number of other aspects in in more detail than I could give you on the phone . |
| 8 | Now they will be scared rigid of stepping up and saying anything which could land them on the same mat upon which Lamb was so unfairly punished at Lord 's yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , I could do them on the train to the City some morning every week . ’ |
| 10 | We could do it on the National Health . |
| 11 | She could do it on the back an'all , she 's got a third of an acre of garden , it 's bloody massive . |
| 12 | He wants he 'll send us a er a rough erm sponsorship form cos I said we could do it on the computer you know , the |
| 13 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 14 | Snow settled on the blanket and he could feel it on the back of his neck . |
| 15 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 16 | He could see none on the wall . |
| 17 | But still we kept saying if only we could see ourselves on the video , that would help us . |
| 18 | ‘ We had n't quite reached that point , ’ says Mr Johnson , ‘ but we could see it on the horizon . ’ |
| 19 | But as far as freebies are concerned , as you know our cage driller machine , that 's now into it 's third year of development , I have an assurance from the college that we could be we could use it on the day . |
| 20 | Now he was n't held down , he could unleash them on the world . |
| 21 | My legs are wobbling , they could dump me on the lino . |
| 22 | If you filled one in to read Pay John Smith one thousand pounds , and it was stolen , the thief could sign it on the back with the name John Smith , and then pay it into his own account , which might be in a different name entirely . |
| 23 | So he asked if he could publish it on the morning of press day ; appearing in one paper in London would not undermine the American publicity . |
| 24 | I mean I , my sister used to have one and she said you could take it on the motorway and it 'll just keep up a , a very good speed still with a noisy engines and then it just kept going and going and going . |
| 25 | As the time grew nearer , Shanti began to call me Molly , and I could hear her on the telephone telling her friends , ‘ I 'm going to meet my mother . ’ |
| 26 | He was silent for a while and they could hear someone on the telephone in the main room . |
| 27 | To save time , he decided to take the bicycle with him across the fields so that he could ride it on the smoother sections . |
| 28 | As she is only three you will need a lot of patience and persistence to get the message across , but do keep trying , otherwise her bossiness could leave her on the wrong side of the fence from her friends . |
| 29 | If anything went wrong , he could blame it on the Minister 's interference . |
| 30 | What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path … |