Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slammed a fist up at her as if the force of his gesture could throw her the last five feet , and screamed at her although he knew that she could n't hear . |
| 2 | Walker 's ball skills could make him the ideal link between Tim Horan , who switched from centre to fly-half when Lynagh damaged his shoulder against Ireland , and Little . |
| 3 | You could make them the same overall diameter , you could even get the tensions to be the same , but when you play those strings they 're going to feel completely different because a string with a thin core and a heavy wrap is going to move more freely than one with a heavy core and a thin wrap . |
| 4 | The less official he could make it the better . |
| 5 | Or you could make it the positive , but you ca n't have both . |
| 6 | ‘ You could dye them the same colour , ’ said Betty . |
| 7 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 8 | Well I , I took the liberty of the Lord Lieutenant 's appointed me to something called the Sussex Rural Options Land Bank and I brought you a copy of the leaflet , having notice of your question and I did ask the officer who deals with this in the Sussex Rural Community Council if he could give me the latest score on housing I thought that the news was bad from what he had said , but having said that , I mean every effort is being made to deal with the issues you raise in this council which is now chaired by Peter . |
| 9 | We could give 'em a bit more , we could give , we could give 'em the four hundred pounds . |
| 10 | Or what we could do , if you say these this dose makes you a bit drowsy , we could give you the same stuff but in a lower dose . |
| 11 | When I wrote to Dr Barnardo 's , I said that they might not approve of money from such a source but the secretary who answered the letter said he was an old Selwyn man and the more we could send him the better . |
| 12 | Then he could show him the dismal landscape , and drawings he had done recently , some of which he had shown the Reverend Pietersen . |
| 13 | you could do it the long round , now I think you 're okay on those . |
| 14 | Perhaps if I could remember them the whole mystery would be solved . |
| 15 | Not our our owns but erm other people and they could see them the next day when the steamers went to the north isles for the er the cockerels or the hens sitting on the top of them . |
| 16 | ‘ I think you could call it the metaphorical baked meats for our secretary . |
| 17 | He gave a cool laugh , drawled , ‘ I guess you could call it the madonna-whore complex . ’ |
| 18 | I well I could tell you the inside story of that but I 'm not going to but I will tell the outside , the public story . |
| 19 | ‘ I could cook you the same food for a quarter of the price . |
| 20 | ‘ I could ask you the same . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I would have thought you could ask it the other way round . |
| 22 | It landed in the sand , hopping on to the upslope and , when Lyle got there , he knew he could hit it the required 140 yards to the pin . |
| 23 | Lucy was no saint , but she could forgive him the rough handling . |
| 24 | But a furlong out Mill Reef had sprinted clear , and only Pistol Packer could deny him the greatest moment of an outstanding racing career . |