Example sentences of "could [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Could my honourable friend explain how that came about ? |
2 | Could my Noble Friend er not agree that in fact grant maintained schools have been very successful , not only in raising academic standards in helping parents , but in actually improving the fabric of the buildings |
3 | Could my night-time visitor have called in here to pick up the key he had shown me , and left the back door open at the same time ? |
4 | How could her young sister have behaved so inconsiderately ? |
5 | How long could their own obstruction permit the slave-owners to claim the slaves were unfit for freedom ? |
6 | But could their dramatic re-building have been done much more cheaply ? |
7 | Could you revised paragraph ten , Fred ? |
8 | Could you all sort of pass that round . |
9 | The expression on his face had been wary , but what more could she possible hope for ? |
10 | ‘ Has she told the police about it ? ’ asked Melissa , wondering if ‘ two-coat ’ could he local dialect for ‘ two-faced ’ and thinking that it might well be a suitable epithet for Rodney Shergold . |
11 | Could his same notion of ‘ agitational contemporaneity ’ work for Armchair Theatre as it had worked for North American TV drama ? |
12 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
13 | How could his beautiful champagne based sauce be indicted for murder ? |