Example sentences of "could [vb infin] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In episode three , the script required this seasoned gourmet to turn to his wife with the wide-eyed enquiry : ‘ Annie , what exactly IS a truffle ? ’ before scampering to open a reference book on the kitchen table so that the camera could zoom in on the illustration . |
| 2 | But he could cash in with a lucrative return against the 24-year-old German early next year . |
| 3 | He could fall in with the desire of Sapt , marry her secretly and fill the empty place in the Elphberg dynasty . |
| 4 | ‘ Would you care for a bit of supper , and then we could look in at the Area Ball . |
| 5 | There was no key in the lock , so he could see in through the big old-fashioned key-hole . |
| 6 | Cawthorne was leaning over the machine , blocking my view of anything else inside the bunker , and I slid around to check whether I could see in through the slits . |
| 7 | She found that she could tune in to the nature spirits and devas overlighting particular species and areas of landscape . |
| 8 | Before 1950 there was no regional TV station or transmitter : only Parisians could pick up a TV signal ; in 1958 only 50 per cent of the population could tune in to the one black-and-white TV channel . |
| 9 | It 's a shame , what yo , I think you could really do with is somebody sort of part-time who is kind of flexible on , on when they 're part-time so they could fit in with the with the sort of fluctuation |
| 10 | You could fit in in a number of ways . |
| 11 | A Midlands source said last night : ‘ Forest could move in with a £1m plus bid . ’ |
| 12 | Fred said , ‘ The only other time he ever ordered it was the night you rang us up in Leeds to say you 'd got the house and we could move in by the week we were spliced . ’ |
| 13 | The thing that 's suggested just to sort of er bring that round to you to you know rather than just have me speaking , is to suggest that er if I start a sentence er perhaps you know people could join in with the finish of that sentence , you know . |
| 14 | She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted . |
| 15 | He could call in at the Informer office in Chancery Lane and use the telephone to arrange a suitably stimulating lunch . |
| 16 | At the foot of it there was a kind of dent in the stonework where she could crouch in behind the cloth , almost hidden . |
| 17 | If they were going along trying to open shop doors , they could go in as a suspected person loitering but it was n't looked upon very favourably by the courts . |
| 18 | That could go in with the er wrapping paper could n't it ? |
| 19 | If you got it you could go in to the higher , if you did n't want to go into the higher you leave at er thirteen , you went into the supplementary . |
| 20 | I said they did and offered to leave the door on the latch so he could sneak in for a bit of a warm . |
| 21 | He was a very nice man and said we could come in for a chat . |
| 22 | Well , she 's still not really conscious , but he could come in for a minute , could n't he ? ’ |
| 23 | As a thought struck him he dropped on to his hunkers again and whispered quickly , ‘ They could come in by the far gate and force their way into the back of the crees : they 're only planked . ’ |
| 24 | And who else could come in by the laboratory door from the street ? |
| 25 | The workshop sessions at Highlander which had sought to clarify the types of information which were required led to the production of a coding sheet which research workers could fill in with the individual details , thereby ensuring both comprehensive coverage , and compatibility between researchers . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I could cut through some of the stitching and we could get in at the bottom , ’ said Masklin . |
| 27 | Admission rates were £4 for adults , £concessionary , with further concessionary rates of £10 for a family ( 2+2 ) and a ‘ bring a pensioner ’ scheme whereby anyone bringing a pensioner ( or a child ) could get in at the concessionary rate . |
| 28 | We had to make the game all-ticket so no-one came thinking they could get in on the day . |
| 29 | Anyone who really wanted to could get in with no trouble at all . ’ |
| 30 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |