Example sentences of "[noun prp] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main bar had an alcove with more marble than Lord Elgin could have handled , and , at the northern end of Blackfriars Bridge , it was over-popular with the lunch-time City crowd who thought it daring to venture across the river . |
| 2 | The new Prime Minister was obliged , yesterday morning , to send a driver to find out the telephone number of one of his key ministers , before Mr Singh could pass on the good news of his appointment . |
| 3 | The teacher suggested that Mrs Singh could help by reading with him , Mrs Singh to read one line , Jeetinder the next ; she was evidently unaware of the possibility that Jeetinder 's reading could be more competent than his mother 's . |
| 4 | The psychologist had suggested among other things that Mrs Singh could help to improve Jeetinder 's spoken and written language by reading to him at bedtime and could help to improve his numeracy by encouraging him to spend and account for his pocket money . |
| 5 | Mr Singh could take him to the bus when he was on late shifts and collect him on early shifts . |
| 6 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 7 | By the time that she had balanced the tray on a small table , the silver teapot carefully placed where Matey could preside over it , Mrs Darrell had embarked on an attack on Dr Neil and the profession which he had taken up . |
| 8 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 9 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 10 | How it would all end Matey could not imagine . |
| 11 | She was nearly as sceptical as Dr Neil about the reason for McAllister 's presence in their life , but she was such a good , hard-working creature , despite her decorative appearance , that Matey could not quarrel with her . |
| 12 | If she did n't change it , I suppose Doogie could always poison it . |
| 13 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 14 | Mrs. Pridmore could n't see the sense of more examinations and all this talking about a career . |
| 15 | Inspector Blakelock or Brend Pridmore could easily have had occasion to go there . |
| 16 | But while the pair had their differences , Bradl could laugh it all off in the end . |
| 17 | Rosenberg could sense the counter-accusations ringing across the Atlantic , the worst of them perhaps unspoken : Americans had idealist and somewhat puritan expectations of how Dr Aveling should have behaved , Americans are a simple people , literal-minded and dependent on secondary sources of information . |
| 18 | Since the characters that helped the individual to succeed in the battle were the traditional Protestant virtues of enterprise , initiative and thrift , Spencer could project his philosophy as a new foundation for traditional morality , despite its tendency to encourage indifference to the suffering of those who still needed to be taught a lesson by a wise but harsh Nature . |
| 19 | The eyes were open and Ewan could see that , no matter how objective he tried to be , something lived in this body , something which he would soon extinguish with his own , vibrant , developed persona . |
| 20 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 21 | Without Gollum Good could never have succeeded in destroying Evil and when the Ring is gone the Elves feel forced to leave Middle Earth because there is nothing more for them to do . |
| 22 | But Amin Rajan could also be right in predicting that financial houses will have a declining influence in the City . |
| 23 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 24 | If Mr Mitterrand could do it , why not Mr Rocard ? |
| 25 | In fact Hounslow could find only eight players for the first match of the tournament and conceded 12 goals against England before the hard-working Hacker opened their account . |
| 26 | Mary-Lou could n't speak , the sight of the enormous spider apparently running straight at her had completely undone her . |
| 27 | Anything Richard could suggest was irresistible and Tory nodded . |
| 28 | Then in the event of a change of monarchy , Anne 's marriage to Prince Richard could , since it was as yet incomplete , be annulled . |
| 29 | ‘ Be assured , sirrah , that the constable was never guilty of that mistake in my hearing , ’ Edward said quietly — before Richard could muster a retort . |
| 30 | I wished Richard could see them together . |