Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 2 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 3 | I could reassure you with talk of progress and produce another pile of evidence to back me up : more family planning , more education , more employment , constitutional changes . |
| 4 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 5 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 6 | Well , in some countries this might be the only opportunity learners get to hear extensive chunks of the language , so you could treat it as a " language bath " session and concentrate on helping your learners come away with a general idea of the content . |
| 7 | If the deceased was prone to depression , the court could treat it as an example of the egg shell skull rule . |
| 8 | Today the library service is the most used of all county council facilities ; some of its supporters fear dwindling stocks and reduced opening hours could damage it beyond repair for future readers and writers |
| 9 | But she was not a business executive for nothing , and , since it went without saying that the time he could spare her from his day was limited , she placed the buff folder down upon the desk and without more ado began , ‘ The Palmer & Pearson file . |
| 10 | You always had a few explanations for why something did something and you could never pick out which — why it did it … you could explain it in several ways , and it just was n't positive enough for me . |
| 11 | If , if , if you could explain it by that because presumably their standard of living did change between eighteen fifty |
| 12 | It is equally clear that some directors have privately expressed fears that , given the crudeness with which the 1993–4 budget trends will have been constructed , severe cash shortages could affect them by September . |
| 13 | It was appalling the way he could affect her like this . |
| 14 | Any inbuilt coding — in the form of genes — that could affect us after our child-bearing period is irrelevant to the survival of the species : the genes involved might code us for death but , in terms of the species , this does not matter because we have already served our purpose by reproducing . |
| 15 | Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing . |
| 16 | The lord could grant it to whom he would . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish I could court you with beautiful words , ’ the farmer went on , ‘ but I can only say I love you madly and want you for my wife . |
| 18 | Grammar schools already had adequate facilities or could build them from scratch . |
| 19 | I 'm not sure sure how we could build it into the criteria of But it 's it 's a point which would obviously have to be borne in mind in terms of the str you know , the planning process . |
| 20 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 21 | but even then we could have consignment stock here in effect cos they 're only forty minutes away , we could throw 'em in the back of the car and have 'em delivered . |
| 22 | ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae . |
| 23 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 24 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 25 | I do n't like to blow my own trumpet but My Better Half could eat it to a band playing . |
| 26 | They were able to request anything they wanted from their administrative colleagues which they felt could aid them on any given mission . |
| 27 | He told me that he would donate £5,000 to the fund if I would undertake to invite his little son , then at school in Oxford , to tea on odd occasions , so that I could acquaint him with some of the matters relating to Judaism . |
| 28 | When the statement was just a proposal banks objected to it fiercely , arguing that unpredictable day-to-day swings in securities prices , for example , could expose them to crises of confidence among investors . |
| 29 | The treatment can offset some effects of menopause , including brittle bone disease — osteoporosis — but the study reveals that the wrong kind of HRT could expose them to the risk of womb cancer . |
| 30 | Well , before the invention of sound recording — and indeed for some time after — the only thing people could compare it with was stenography . |