Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I could think any more my mouth had decided . |
| 2 | A person with money could buy just about anything . |
| 3 | Then , while it seemed that he was the one who was going to apply the antiseptic — a job she could do quite well herself — he was speeding away any huffiness she felt at that last thought by asking her her name . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | In addition , Wycliffe could hear quite clearly what was happening in the outer office — the clacking of a typewriter , the girls exchanging scraps of conversation . |
| 8 | She could read very well herself . |
| 9 | Up and up we went and when I could walk no longer he lay me down and covered me with kisses and love bites . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , our sound could go anywhere now we 've got more money and better equipment , ’ continues Rikky . |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , our sound could go anywhere now we 've got more money and better equipment , ’ continues Rikky . |
| 14 | If I could leave right now I would ! ’ |
| 15 | He still had difficulties focusing , but could tell clearly enough what was happening in front of him . |
| 16 | You could tell right away he did n't want to know . |
| 17 | Three chords and you could play just about anything on the album . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | If they could fly straight away their parents would never find them and they would starve ? |