Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later . |
| 2 | As the band were good enough live , we could build up a ground swell of interest at a local level which then translated into national success . |
| 3 | Like animals , they are great levellers — not remotely impressed by a string of titles — and he always found he could build up a good rapport with them . |
| 4 | He could build up a knowledge of who he was , piece by piece . |
| 5 | So , for a few pounds a month now , you could build up a very welcome nest-egg for yourself and provide financial protection for your family at the same time . |
| 6 | Perhaps over the generations the interaction between a particular cultural context and the energy pattern at a place could build up a strong image or archetype . |
| 7 | She could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 8 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 9 | Ever wish you could make up a degree course to suit your own needs ? |
| 10 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 11 | If you could make up a sentence with those . |
| 12 | I could make out a couple of dozen large buildings . |
| 13 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 14 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 15 | I could make out a younger Conchis in the centre , wearing a straw hat and shorts , and there was one woman , a peasant-woman , though not Maria , because she was Maria 's age in the photo and it was plainly twenty or thirty years old . |
| 16 | I could make out a sort of close-fitting purple cap on the back of her head . |
| 17 | And now it was out of its glass frame he could make out a faded signature at the bottom : |
| 18 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 19 | Both sides could make out a case that they deserved to win and should have been awarded penalties . |
| 20 | With his money and our soul we could think up a scheme to please everybody . |
| 21 | He still feels he could eke out a result without him . |
| 22 | However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series . |
| 23 | A successful tour is the priority — the icing on the cake would come if wife , Wendy , could hang on a week or so for the birth of their second child due a month before the end of the tour . ‘ |
| 24 | We could hang up a few politicians too. , ‘ There 's that farmer who used a plough with horses . |
| 25 | A die could survive over a long period of time . |
| 26 | Perhaps you could lighten up a little bit . ’ |
| 27 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 28 | And because one would share with neighbours , it was rather spaced out so that people could benefit over a longer period . |
| 29 | Taken over an average hard disk this could give around a 15 per cent saving in space . |
| 30 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |