Example sentences of "could [vb infin] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when her husband cracked another joke , she found she could laugh with the rest . |
| 2 | ‘ You could stay with the Ballards ; Zelah would love that . ’ |
| 3 | Whilst the company had grown significantly during the Wadeville years little could compare with the move to Germiston . |
| 4 | The House of Lords found that the legislation only allowed terms to be attached which related to the use of the site and not to the types of contract the site owner could make with the caravan owners . |
| 5 | Rival skippers have always agreed that Ian , who plays for Veryan , near Truro , Cornwall , could bat with a runner because he is only able to walk . |
| 6 | It was hard to believe that very soon that innocent sky could throb with the sounds of death . |
| 7 | The self-abnegation of Friends , emptying themselves the better to be filled by the Light Within , did not then necessarily exclude the pursuit of righteousness in the world ; equally , in the outlook of growing numbers of Quakers in the early nineteenth century , this stance could merge with a stress on the experience of grace which aligned them with evangelicals . |
| 8 | Trevino taught Willie course yardages , Mexican-American humour and how they could win with a quip and a smile . |
| 9 | A voder commentary accompanied the recording , but Rostov had switched off the auditory input to his chair so that he could converse with the Manchu technician who was running the session . |
| 10 | Again , they shrug , if they could survive with a front-row of Ricky Evans , Nigel Meek and Hugh Williams-Jones against England , they should hardly be in undue trouble against Scotland — particularly as they will be under the eye of the same referee in France 's Joel Dume . |
| 11 | However , should there be any difficulty in siting the panel on the pillar , perhaps one of you could discuss with the Publicity Assistants an alternative and suitable site . |
| 12 | Within Photographic Department , for example , volunteers could assist with the filing of slides and prints , and with data entry for a photographic database . |
| 13 | When there was nothing but ash he could crumble with a stick he went back up to his room . |
| 14 | The concerns about what to wear , the latest haircuts and how to deal with acne were subjects I knew well — and I could identify with the girls ' interests too . |
| 15 | A spokesman at the Brazilian Embassy in London said the ambassador himself was a father of five and had two grand-children and could identify with the family 's grief . |
| 16 | How could one refuse tenderness to someone so frail and tiny , to someone whose bones one could break with the flick of wrist , to someone who greeted one with smiles and later whoops of purest delight , who wept if one left them , and would die if one neglected them ? |
| 17 | A ‘ You could finish with a chain cast off on the front , instead of backstitching through the open stitches as usual . |
| 18 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 19 | I could do with a friend . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You looked as if you could do with a sit-down , ’ said the boy 's mother . |
| 21 | ‘ She could do with a bit of growing up , ’ observed Davyd , the shrewd Welsh gardener . |
| 22 | Looks like all of us could do with a bit of both . ’ |
| 23 | It could do with a bit of script-editing but satellite sceptics expecting a botch-job held together by sticky-backed plastic will be pleasantly surprised . |
| 24 | Though shooting 's too good for them , if you ask me , we 're too soft in this country , we could do with a bit of Hitler here I think sometimes instead of the namby-pamby way we go on … . ’ |
| 25 | It should n't be difficult , there 's plenty of farms could do with a bit of help with men away at the war . |
| 26 | She 's in her early forties , she does n't drink and , frankly , could do with a bit of peace and quiet . |
| 27 | Cos presumably there must be an awful lot of wealthy old age pensioners about as well who , who could do with a bit less er , from the state because they 've got plenty of their own , er and give a bit more to people who do n't ? |
| 28 | Neither of us , it would seem , is much of a leg man , but I suppose I could do with a bit more than I get . |
| 29 | ‘ This one 's got brass handles , which could do with a bit of a clean . |
| 30 | ‘ You look as if you could do with a bit of help … ’ |