Example sentences of "could [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bannister , who has hit five goals in eight games , said : ‘ If I get 20 this season then I could earn myself an extension of the contract . ’ |
| 2 | Apart from changing your diet , it would be a great idea if you could grant yourself a little more importance , and make sure you avoid getting overtired or missing meals , when at all possible . |
| 3 | you 're alright like , you could make yourself a nest in 'em and you was |
| 4 | You could make yourselves a drink . ’ |
| 5 | As well as this , Vincent may have been influenced by Zola 's theory that one could make oneself an artist by an act of will , providing one had the temperament — ‘ Art is nature seen through a temperament ’ — and although natural talent was helpful , it was by no means essential . |
| 6 | You could buy yourself a small luxury each week as a symbolic message to your subconscious , so that it begins to attract money into your life . |
| 7 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 8 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 9 | ‘ You could give yourself a nasty cut on those shoulder blades , ’ Arthur said , suddenly remembering the whole girl subject after his respite from it and feeling unusually breezy . |
| 10 | " Fraid so , " her mother answered , " Corn Flakes in plenty , though , and you could do yourself an egg if you 've got time . |
| 11 | If she alienates all the women she could do herself a lot of harm . ’ |
| 12 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 13 | I wonder if we could set ourselves a target , that we actually include something like this in next year 's business plan . |
| 14 | So Maurice could call himself a ‘ Christian socialist ’ , though his socialism , like that of his associate Charles Kingsley ( 1819 — 75 ) , was of a somewhat idealistic and utopian character . |
| 15 | Whether or not he could call himself a Chief Rabbit , he had no experience of this sort of thing . |
| 16 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 17 | But you could fax yourself a copy of your signature or letterhead , save the incoming fax to disk , and incorporate it into outgoing faxes without too much hassle . |
| 18 | Another example is where the director could pay himself a very high salary but is caught by the tax-approved pensionable earnings ceiling of £77,400 per annum ( from April ) . |
| 19 | We had another week before the Festival and we figured we could hitch ourselves a ride the last leg of the way on a fast freight loader from Exalfa City . ’ |
| 20 | After working in all the major cities on the Continent , they could allow themselves a little self praise . |
| 21 | Perhaps we could allow ourselves a small sherry before dinner just for a change . |
| 22 | But Charles could prove himself a good lord : when his fidelis ( faithful man ) Adalgar was captured by Charles 's half-sister ( she supported her full brother Lothar in the fraternal conflict of 841 ) and taken to her stronghold of Laon , Charles rode through the night with a small retinue to achieve Adalgar 's release . |
| 23 | This must be done by people on all levels involved in health-care , including the insurance companies who could save themselves a fortune in claims . |
| 24 | That way you could save yourself a whole load of trouble , not to mention planning ! ’ |
| 25 | With City backing , someone could get themselves a bargain . |
| 26 | ‘ Would n't you like to know how Moll Sutton made so much money that she could get herself a shop ? ’ |
| 27 | She might not be able to manage one of Marguerite 's culinary delights , but at least she could cook herself a meal . |
| 28 | You could ask yourself the following questions : |
| 29 | I 'm sure you could find yourself a nice easy job where you do n't have to do much apart from enhance the décor . |
| 30 | Consequently , a person holding property ( as a result , of course , of receiving a benefit by way of succession to the deceased ) could find himself a trustee for another on account of words addressed by the deceased either to the beneficiary or another person . |