Example sentences of "could [vb infin] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no one in Class 1 had seemed unduly disturbed by his account of them , even if the Husayn twins had said that pigs were ‘ boring ’ and had asked if they could bring in the novelization of Terminator Two . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Amiss , ‘ from what you say , it 's not as if he could bring in the police and have the club cleansed of sin . |
| 3 | The right address could bring in the buyers . |
| 4 | In the breeding aquarium they could suck in the fry and result in heavy losses . |
| 5 | The diagram has one segment filled in ; pupils could fill in the others themselves , working either in groups or individually . |
| 6 | In the second : the obvious views , you could fill in the form for me . |
| 7 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |