Example sentences of "and [indef pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raoul dabbed at his nose with the back of his hand , and everyone could see the resulting scarlet streak . |
| 2 | The therapist and the group jointly answered those irrational statements , and everyone could see the funny side of the bizarre nature of her final image . |
| 3 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 4 | They took up the whole of the street and nothing could move until this sea of humanity had passed by . ’ |
| 5 | Nothing could hurt her mother now and nothing could hurt her father even . |
| 6 | Just the same , Wyss found himself sliding , and sensed the others sliding back too , and nothing could stop them . |
| 7 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 8 | Art school , university , we were going out of Yorkshire and nothing could stop us . |
| 9 | Firelight shone on festoons of holly , making the berries glow like rubies , and nothing could taste better than the chicken and the plum pudding Mrs Martin had cooked . |
| 10 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 11 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 12 | I think they felt that having survived so far , they were now leading charmed lives and nothing could get them . |
| 13 | When we were satisfied that all the holes in the walls , main door , loft door and roof were sealed up , and nothing could get in or out , we turned our attention to the exterior . |
| 14 | Nobody and nothing could get at them . |
| 15 | To hell with reason , she was scared today : what if she 'd lost her way , and nothing could put her on the right track . |
| 16 | She would go that afternoon to fetch water from the fountain , she liked doing that anyway , and nothing could come of it to hurt her , there were always plenty of others there , and she 'd give Tommaso a sign , so that he 'd come , come at night to find her , that was the way it was done , she 'd seen it , becks and smiles under half-dosed eyes as the water brimmed in the young women 's jars . |
| 17 | Rather breathlessly , he told her that despite this , no one and nothing could take from them what had been . |
| 18 | There 's a listening service via the telephone to let parents eat with peace of mind , and nothing could surpass the service in the dining room . |
| 19 | He knew he ought not to mark the books really , but it was only a tiny mark in pencil and no-one could accuse him of defacing library property , not really , it would n't do for an ex-library committee member to be caught defacing library property now would it . |
| 20 | The hostel was fairly close to town and no-one could complain about the prices . |
| 21 | A sorcerer was abroad and no-one could stand against him . |
| 22 | Watford looked more dangerous though and no-one could dispute they deserved a matchwinning goal . |
| 23 | He was also workshy , and no-one could remember when he last had a regular job , but most people could recall when he 'd last tried to touch them for the loan of a bob . |
| 24 | Then it follows from that that understanding Shakespeare and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive is also a good because if , for example , this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no-one could see him and no-one could understand him , and no-one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
| 25 | Spring Street , just off Broadway , was fashionable , and no-one could describe Mrs Gutermann 's as other than high-class . |
| 26 | Then it follows from that that understanding Shakespeare and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive is also a good because if , for example , this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no-one could see him and no-one could understand him , and no-one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
| 27 | I mean you could be laying in bed , which are downstairs , and someone could throw summat through a window . |
| 28 | She says it was an old building and someone could have been stuck on an upper floor . |
| 29 | A spokesman at Darlington police station said : This was a despicable act and someone could have easily been hurt or even killed . |
| 30 | I mean , you are practically forced into a close encounter , and nobody could miss the electricity between the two of you . |