Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We discussed the purposes of the visit which , among other things , would explore the help which the Commission could give to assist NGO ‘ inter-country linking ’ within the UK . |
| 2 | It was all Isa could do to persuade Wilson to let some light in and dry her tears and tell her what ailed her ; and when she did so , it made little sense . |
| 3 | There was nothing the English or the French could do to save Poland . |
| 4 | There was nothing he could do to save George Vicente Brown . |
| 5 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 6 | When the hue and cry died down , there was nothing Charlton could do to prevent Lawrence taking on a new challenge . |
| 7 | In the meantime there was little he could do to prevent Leathart 's inspection . |
| 8 | It was the least I could do to help Karen out now . |
| 9 | After all , there was nothing he could do to help Maidstone now . |
| 10 | Could you think of any other words that we could use to describe Manyara the eldest sister ? |
| 11 | Sometimes , appalled by her disloyalty , she could begin to understand Dr. Lorrimer 's contempt . |
| 12 | The game at Rangers ' ground could begin to dominate Shearer 's thinking at a time when the only other striker available to Roxburgh , Hearts ' John Robertson , is carrying an injury from Saturday 's win over Falkirk . |
| 13 | ‘ I could go to see Lewis Watts , he was my dad 's apprentice for five years when I was a little sprout like you just learning the trade . |
| 14 | Former Pakistan captain Asif believes England could struggle to bowl India out twice in a match — ‘ They need the right bowlers on those Indian tracks , because they do n't get much assistance from the surface . |
| 15 | Neither Croatia nor Slovenia could afford to bribe Serbia into letting them go . |
| 16 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 17 | But no king of Macedon before Philip could afford to provoke Athens to outright invasion . |
| 18 | The devil in such details could come to infect Germany 's attitude to the EC as a whole . |
| 19 | Leavisism assumed that its rewriting of the canon had a once-and-for-all quality , so that it was inconceivable that anyone could come to admire Shelley again , though this is precisely what has happened under the influence of Harold Bloom , who is dedicated to overturning the Eliot-Leavis version of poetic history . |
| 20 | Only a chauvinist could fail to cheer Sinopoli 's achievements here . |
| 21 | I do n't think I could bear to see Madeleine again . |
| 22 | ‘ In fact , I 've half a mind to join you two girls tomorrow in Sherwood Forest , and perhaps we could arrange to lose Anna somewhere in the bosky glades . ’ |
| 23 | At the end of a powerful performance , made more remarkable by its unexpected ferocity , he concluded by urging Conservative MPs to consider whether they could continue to support Mrs Thatcher 's leadership . |
| 24 | It might not have been her place to reveal such a suspicion , but it could help to relieve Juliette 's fears on her brother 's behalf . |
| 25 | Such a disturbance could help to explain Wilfrid 's delayed return . |
| 26 | So I set to work learning Italian intensively , because I continued to feel , and increasingly felt , that anything that could help to keep Italy out of any war that might take place , ought to be done . |
| 27 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 28 | There was nothing — there never had been , never could be anything — that anyone could say to warm Nora to Daniel once again . |
| 29 | She was just trying to think what she could say to bring John back to the subject of the library and its workings when Shirley came in with two cups of tea . |