"could" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

could verbo

could + preposición

Kolokacji: 17

could with • could from • could in • could for • could on • ...

could + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 10

could easily • could hardly • could before • alone could • decently could • ...

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

(1) easily, decently

Kolokacji: 2

Kolokacji: 8

1. could hardly = mógł ledwie could hardly

2. could before = mógł wcześniej could before

3. alone could = w pojedynkę mógł alone could

4. simply could = po prostu mógł simply could

Except for Benjy, bless his heart, who simply could not, grasp what we were telling him.
Yet she simply could not, would not walk away with no accountability and tell her troops the murder was their problem.
She simply could not or would not realise that Julian meant what he said!
If it actually worked, perhaps writers could simply "program" or "input" instead of having to "write" in the future.
But it simply could not, she believes, be done in the city where she lives.
And alas, perhaps they simply could not nor ever will.
When it was Messier's turn to speak, he simply could not.
It would not occur to them that a man could simply and suddenly undergo a sea change.
But she simply could not, nor did she know how to do it right.
The sorry excuse that he simply could not "put everything into one story" simply won't wash.

5. once could = kiedyś mógł once could

6. nowhere could = nigdzie mógł nowhere could

7. could potentially = mógł potencjalnie could potentially

8. could somehow = mógł jakoś could somehow

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