Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I knew ‘ Butcher 's Boy ’ was Danny 's call sign but who on earth could want him at two 0'clock in the morning ? |
| 3 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 4 | Then he could dissect it at will . |
| 5 | It would be very useful if we could trap all this data and stuff it into a file , then we could study it at our leisure . |
| 6 | Careful explanations at this time could give them at least an inkling of the importance of the game , and some measure of preparation for the time when it will be no game , but a reality of great promise . |
| 7 | I do n't have anything else that I could show you at the moment I 'm afraid . |
| 8 | His sideways glance told her he 'd noticed the manoeuvre but he merely smiled as if , knowing he could curtail it at any time , he was allowing her that small freedom . |
| 9 | The teams each had to prepare a menu for 50 diners under the added pressure of working in glass-fronted kitchens so visitors could watch them at work . |
| 10 | Oh he could do it at work ? |
| 11 | On the first day I doubt whether you could feel them at all ! |
| 12 | He could feel them at the small of his back , feel the scratch of the lavender garland which she still held . |
| 13 | If I could see him at the back I 'll er , I 'll just get the question a bit more clearer and I 'm sure I can help . |
| 14 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |
| 15 | Sometimes she became childlike and you could see her at eight or seventeen or twenty-five . |
| 16 | ‘ I could see them at the hotel . |
| 17 | I was with , and it was , I could see it at the front . |
| 18 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 19 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps you could drop me at the nearest bus stop or railway station , ’ she added . |
| 21 | She could cow him at a glance . |
| 22 | How could gas companies give any guarantees to gas suppliers , especially on gas volume , if their customers could by-pass them at any time ? |
| 23 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 24 | Anyone wishing to buy furniture out of income rather than capital could have it at the cash payment price plus 5 per cent commission , a quarter of which they had to deposit before the goods were delivered . |
| 25 | Erm , now it did cross my mind , that it would be nice just to see it and have a talk and a demonstration , but I think our meetings are too big really for that sort of demonstration , I wonder if we could have it at the handicraft afternoon . |
| 26 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 27 | There was speculation last night that Hankin 's former Leeds United colleague David Harvey could join him at Feethams . |
| 28 | I could hear her at the door , |
| 29 | She imagined she could hear it at her back , behind the house and the soft green swell of land that shielded it , could hear the breaking thud of the winter waves on the shore she had not yet seen . |
| 30 | ago and he could walk me at weights . |