Example sentences of "could [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 2 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
| 3 | He says that a person could stay at a hotel with his own doctor and nurse cheaper than that . |
| 4 | We could stay in a nice hotel . ’ |
| 5 | Their desperate attempts to cut expenditure in any way they could led to a sharp decline in print quality . |
| 6 | An example of a chart that you could construct on a card , or in your diary is shown opposite . |
| 7 | You could compensate for a too-stiff rod and poor reflexes — reflexes which you need for easing off when the hook bites into a lip — by using a stronger line . |
| 8 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 9 | ‘ We could build on a garden room . ’ |
| 10 | I mean i i if you could get in for a penny a week that was alright because when things got better you could build on a penny a week , you see ? |
| 11 | Daresbury 's work for industry , which amounts to only 5 per cent of its activities , could double within a year , Professor Leadbetter said . |
| 12 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 13 | In one mouthful she ate as much as twelve English farmers could eat in a whole meal . |
| 14 | Any citizen attending could inscribe on a piece of pottery the name of the person he wanted ostracised , without speeches or debate . |
| 15 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 16 | In the downtown area there is everything a visitor could want including a park for children . |
| 17 | This fabulous resort , a mere twenty minutes from the recently-opened Holdana International Airport , offers you everything you could want from a holiday — and more ! |
| 18 | A taut fusion of garrotted guitars , drum machine dynamics and half-hidden melodies , this is a spectacular , sensual starting point with slow bits and crazed barrages and everything else anyone could want from a slab of noise terrorism . |
| 19 | There was everything that you particularly could want from a grand piano to a pin sold in Main Street . |
| 20 | She saves Antonio 's life , is rich , beautiful , dutiful to her father — everything a man could want in a woman . |
| 21 | A real mountain bastu is one of those experiences not to be missed , and all you could want after a hard day 's toil , a wonderful relaxant . |
| 22 | The row could make for a strained atmosphere as Mr Major spends the Premier 's traditional weekend with the Queen . |
| 23 | While Hoving 's career at the Met could make for a juicy and fascinating story , Making the Mummies Dance proves that he is not the man to tell it . |
| 24 | Religious networks could make for a unified effort or become the vertebrae of different segments of reformers whose conflicts were expressed in organisational diversity and competition . |
| 25 | It was an easy way out , but one which could make for a far more enjoyable session . |
| 26 | all that godliness , honour and love could make of a knight was combined in Don Rodrigo … |
| 27 | Some will be more businesslike , some will be better equipped , some will be growing , others in decline — all these factors directly affect both the contribution which they could make to a partnership and the objective which they would expect to gain from it . |
| 28 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 29 | She also asked us each to decide how many garments we could make in a week , not sewn up ( if we chose to do this we were paid extra ) . |
| 30 | Axelrod and Hamilton point out that reciprocal altruism could evolve without the need for individual recognition in a sessile organism ; in principle , it could evolve in a plant . |