Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you enjoy the piece ? ’ he asked , and before I could answer he went on , ‘ I myself did not . |
| 2 | ‘ Michael could make me laugh very easily , ’ said Cossins . |
| 3 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 4 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 5 | Once in , it seemed nothing , absolutely nothing , could make her give up the job she loved . |
| 6 | A sadness that could make her give up acting for good . |
| 7 | With one simple look Luke Denner could make her feel completely and utterly inferior . |
| 8 | She 'd never met any man before who could make her feel so disquieted . |
| 9 | She was amazed to realise now just how detailed her dream of him had been and annoyed that he could make her feel so uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to last night . |
| 10 | It was frustrating to discover that his nearness could make her feel so vulnerable . |
| 11 | Why was it that one laugh could make her forget how maddeningly single-minded he was ? |
| 12 | How was it men could make you feel so confused ? |
| 13 | ‘ If only I could make you see how wonderful it is . ’ |
| 14 | Patients who have little chance of being well enough to leave hospital even if resuscitated by medical specialists could make it known beforehand that they prefer to be left alone . |
| 15 | Of a beautifully groomed , heavily made-up woman it was once said : ‘ It looks as though you could peel her face off . ’ |
| 16 | It is tempting to get a large capacity sack if you know you 'll have a lot to carry , but bear in mind that it could tempt you to carry too much ! |
| 17 | He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four . |
| 18 | Again more mildly , she added , ‘ I wish I could forbid you to go on seeing her . ’ |
| 19 | The friction of their two radiances created a third ; they could sense it building up between them and around them . |
| 20 | But before she could speak he held up one imperious hand , effectively commanding her silence . |
| 21 | Despite their bare feet , our young guides strolled nonchalantly across these sections , apparently unconcerned that a single slip could send them plummeting down the mountainside . |
| 22 | Nobody could expect you to think up anything as stupid as a dumb movie actress aiming at the front page . ’ |
| 23 | Jesus , there 'd be so many things I could do I do n't even know where to start thinking about them . |
| 24 | Yeah you could do I do n't think |
| 25 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 26 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
| 27 | She could feel them welling up behind her eyes , and she blinked rapidly , trying to refocus on how much she hated him instead of how much he was hurting her . |
| 28 | She could feel them pierce through to the back of her head . |
| 29 | Tension choked them : they could feel it rising up their throats , threatening to swamp their brains . |
| 30 | Jacqui was desperate to hang on to her theory , but she could feel it slipping away . |