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) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I
could see his tie, knotted, ready to
be slipped over his head, a black badge
of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck
.

They, and the two large fans which I
could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end
of the hall,
could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office
.

Their roar, like the swelling volume
of a hundred tornadoes
could be heard for miles
.

Atonement, if atonement were possible,
could only
be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin
.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light
of the sun to act as compass, Pamela
could no longer
be positive
of her direction
.

There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that
could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived
.

And even with her limited knowledge
of such things, she knew that the car
could be repaired there ; ;

Not even an empty cartridge case
could be found
.

Inside the crown, stuffed behind the stained sweatband,
could be seen thin, crumpled wads
of currency
.

How much
of an accident
could that
be ''??

So far as he knew, only his father
could be there
.

A hell
of an altitude for a barrel roll, but it
could be done
.

With the rapid rate
of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would
be only a moment when damage
could be done
.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow
of what I took to
be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it
could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

The entire length
of the street
could be raked with rifle fire from this barn
.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he
could hardly wait to get to school to
be near her in the flesh
.
It is hard to see how the situation
could be otherwise
.

Each
could be the real thing
.

Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision
could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj
.

Seeking an obscure, dark, relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background music
could be turned off
.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or
could ever
be, done
.

The conversation that ensued may have been engrossing but it
could hardly
be called world-shattering
.
could and some

`` I
could use
some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything
.

As best as I
could determine, we were
some 700 miles west
of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago
.

Actually, you
could wish for
some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos
of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least
some civilized calm
.

I
could never forget the gaiety with which, when he was both blind and deaf, he let me lead him around his rooms to look at
some of the pictures ; ;

The statement was also made that undoubtedly the railroad
had received
some compensating benefit from the telegraphers, but that it was difficult to imagine what
could balance a job for life
.

Or it
could have chosen to find -- by negotiation --
some way
of stopping the tests without loss to national security
.

That
some men did not want it he
could understand
.

He'd not care about getting waked so he
could give
up some of his whisky to a slit
of a kid and maybe lose one
of his hiding places in the bargain
.

There were not many chairs, so that
some preferred to sit on the edge
of the porch, resting their feet on the ground, and others liked to sit where they
could lean back against the wall
.

They
could not guess that from their concepts
of liberty and freedom would
some day
be born a new nation that for years would
be the symbol
of hope to the oppressed countries
of the world
.

This process made the economical manufacture
of gears questionable until
some way
could be found to permit the repeated re-sharpening
of gear tooth cutters without the loss
of the precision form
.

An aircraft with a load
of small nuclear weapons
could very conceivably
be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area
of Russia -- provided that we
had used
some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there
.

The infrared emission
could then
be assumed to originate at the surface
of the moon, while the radio emission originates at
some depth beneath the surface, where the temperature variation due to solar radiation is reduced in amplitude and shifted in phase
.

This did not mean that married students
could not enroll in other `` mixed '' sections, and
some of them, largely because
of scheduling difficulties, did
.

From here they proceeded to ( 3 ) These same areas in relation to their own future family life stages, developing these to the extent
of examining various crises which
could be expected to confront them at
some time or other
.

In fact,
some -- Anzilotti is the principle example -- went so far as to say that all international law
could be traced to the single legal norm, Pacta sunt Servanda
.

I
could not bring myself to answer that ``
some of my best friends are non-propagating mules ''
.

Such understanding helps to explain why one matron celebrating thirty-five years
of married life
could declare with
some pride that her husband
had `` never seen her entirely naked '', while another woman, boasting an equal number
of years
of married life, is proud
of having `` shared the nudist way
of life -- the really free, natural nude life -- for most
of that period ''
.

He then sold her
some capsules that he asserted would take care
of the tumors and cysts until she
could collect the money for buying his machine
.

`` The majority
of children in the United States
could benefit by
some form
of orthodontic treatment '', says Dr. Allan G. Brodie, professor and head
of the department
of orthodontics at the University
of Illinois and a nationally recognized authority in his field
.

To figure the value
of the farm in terms
of investment income, divide the estimated annual net farm income by the percentage that you
could expect to get in interest if the money were invested in
some other way
.

With the second murder over, he
could have left, hidden the weapon in
some vacant lot or an abandoned cistern in the neighborhood
.

In a sense almost all high school and college courses
could be considered as vocational to the extent that later in life the student in his vocation ( which may
be a profession ) will
be called upon to use
some of the skills developed and the competence obtained
.
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