Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You could smell it from the far side of the room through its Father Christmas wrapping paper . |
| 2 | ‘ You could watch them from the window , ’ he says . |
| 3 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 4 | Maybe , maybe maybe I could do it from the theatre , would , would help |
| 5 | Jed could see them from the car , drinking beers and swapping jokes . |
| 6 | ‘ I could see them from the window in that place . |
| 7 | ‘ No , you did n't have to , you little bitch ; I could see it from the minute we arrived ! |
| 8 | You could keep it from the women , the hidden story of the cells and the cemeteries , of the club and the castor oil bottle . |
| 9 | So if you know the graph of Y equals X squared which unfortunately I ca n't draw tonight it 's draw it for you , could draw it from the inside keep telling everyone else . |
| 10 | I was n't listening , but I could hear it from the dining room . |
| 11 | I could read it from the Oxford |
| 12 | However , any observer who remained outside the black hole would not be affected by this failure of predictability , because neither light nor any other signal could reach him from the singularity . |
| 13 | But Ranulf was here and while Corbett bathed and changed his clothing , he wondered how Ranulf could protect him from the secret assassins now stalking him . |
| 14 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 15 | If only someone could release her from the shackles of loving Adam as easily , she thought ruefully . |
| 16 | They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side : anyone could unlock them from the other side . |
| 17 | The north-east was no place to refine one 's art , but the money was good ( if you could prise it from the agent ) and it widened my working circle ( if you survived . ) |