Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A win or a loss could affect how well you lived for a day or two . |
| 2 | She was determined that there would be no reconciliation , and even though she had found that the sound of his voice reminded her vividly and immediately that she had loved him and could do so again she lay smiling with pleasure at the sheer satisfaction of unforgivingness . |
| 3 | There was a pause , and Charles could feel how fiercely she was controlling her emotions . |
| 4 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |
| 5 | well he 's going through it and he said well it looks alright to me and I say well it does n't look as if it 's connected , any way I won , I could see why then it did n't look connected |
| 6 | She could see how easily it could be done . |
| 7 | Wondered if she could see how well she was doing . |
| 8 | She said to them , sometimes , but she 's a widow , she lives all alone , she has no one , she seems to expect it of me : and they sympathized all the more , and said that they could see how hard it must be for Clara to break away . |
| 9 | ‘ I think Jimi would have still been fusing things , and when he got done finding everything that he could fuse together then he would have invented a couple more things and then fused them with everything else . |
| 10 | Up and up we went and when I could walk no longer he lay me down and covered me with kisses and love bites . |
| 11 | all the way up to the mountains , you could walk so far you could nearly cross over and go to another village right up the mountains , just keep walking and walking for ever , or you could go into the |
| 12 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , our sound could go anywhere now we 've got more money and better equipment , ’ continues Rikky . |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , our sound could go anywhere now we 've got more money and better equipment , ’ continues Rikky . |
| 15 | If I could leave right now I would ! ’ |
| 16 | You could tell right away he did n't want to know . |
| 17 | Who could tell how far she would go ? |
| 18 | Now if we could get down there I could ma what did I tell you ? |
| 19 | Oh no , no , no , not at all af after the war work it , it just seemed to er no one ever seemed to get any be interested in flying as they were pre-war then , or they probably that they had cars and they could get about more you know to other outlying places like Pentiford in Wolverhampton |
| 20 | But if , with this job one , they could , they could say right well we 'll put you in a mental home where you will learn your skills , but you will only get ten pound a week |
| 21 | If there was a proper , a bus system that you could nip on easily they would do that but all those |