Example sentences of "could [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Sherlocks could stay at home and save the tax payers some money . |
| 2 | If I did n't go I could stay at home and work on the house . |
| 3 | I could stay at home and try to write a novel . |
| 4 | Perhaps next month Esquire could stay at home and have a wank . |
| 5 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 6 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 7 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 8 | She explained that I could stay at Heenan House until I could find somewhere suitable to live . |
| 9 | This method therefore had to be cancelled as the time the carrier could remain at Greenock was severely limited . |
| 10 | An expedition spokesman said the pair could remain at Patriot Hills for a week depending on weather conditions . |
| 11 | For them , Japan was a magnet , promising them wages many times what they could earn at home , but according to one Pakistani worker who yesterday decided to speak out publicly , the reality was very different . |
| 12 | Even when the docks and wharves were quiet the local carmen often made detours so they could eat at Bradley 's Dining Rooms . |
| 13 | If Division B could not sell all it could make at £120 , it would reject other sales once the price had dropped to just less than £90 . |
| 14 | it could plays at home and it played alright , it played well , but it was n't being |
| 15 | Englishmen undoubtedly benefited from the fact that the great war was fought mainly on French soil , where they could loot at will , and during periods of victory successful captains were rewarded with offices in conquered territories , such as custodianships of castles , or with grants of land . |
| 16 | Monsieur de Levantiére decided that , as a reward for modelling , Constance could buy at cost two of the previous season 's models . |
| 17 | ‘ Your readers might wonder how he could win at Ripon after finishing down the field when Lester Piggott rode him at York , but there was nothing sinister about it . |
| 18 | If you read her diaries you discover that she travelled incessantly on trains and overnight trains so that she could speak at meetings the next morning . |
| 19 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 20 | Microsoft 's director of Windows NT and networking products Dwayne Walker indicated desktop NT could appear at $500 list and hit a street price of $300 , given reseller discounts of 40% to 50% , once the introductory price expires . |
| 21 | Wella 's high quality , creamy formulations give you a look you never dreamed you could achieve at home . |
| 22 | Dace and small chub at Fawdington also pike which could show at Thornton Bridge and near Brafferton Bridge , Helperby . |
| 23 | I regret if this remark has misled Mr Blair or you to think that I could preach at Kildalton as a Candidate . |
| 24 | She lay awake , excited at the prospect of the pig sacrifice Dai Huang had promised she could watch at dawn . |
| 25 | Deciding she 'd had enough of her office for that week , she filled her briefcase to bulging with work she could do at home , and closed her office door at five sharp . |
| 26 | He had even suppressed , as he could do at will , the brightness of his amber eyes . |
| 27 | The barrio was a place where I felt freer than anywhere else in Salamanca , for it was really a land outside the law , where outcasts at last could feel at home . |
| 28 | Since the Emperor wished to retain ultimate control of foreign policy in his own hands , he was able to meet other European sovereigns in a suitable setting in which both parties could feel at ease . |
| 29 | But … if you could look at Der Zarewitsch ? |
| 30 | We could look at ratios between proportions rather than differences . |