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be could

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Simple past tense of can

  • Before I was blind, I could see very well.

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It couldn't be, could it?

Mars, as polished and incessantly chirpy as he may be, could get people to tune in.

Politically, the pressure on Cameron – and on his successor, whoever that may be could be extreme.

— weapons of mass destruction — "threat, the question would be, Could Saddam Hussein have survived that?

"Ending this depression," he writes, "should be, could be, almost incredibly easy.

There was nowhere else I wanted to be, could have imagined being.

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Few breaks have gone the Jets' way this season, and this break -- small as it might be -- could not have come at a worse moment.

They came so brides- and grooms-to-be could talk of wedding bells that never rang.

But he did so with the sort of inquisitiveness and observational power that I, as a young doctor-to-be, could not help but want to emulate.

Back in the day, brides-to-be could easily talk about their silver pattern just as much as their dress.

Could-be, could-be calls Drab Gray.

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