Example sentences of "could on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She preferred to eat as many of these as she could on the spot , as they were too messy to take away . |
| 2 | ‘ Those who can not hear must feel the rod of correction , ’ she declaimed , raising the stick as she advanced , Martha let out a shriek , leaped to her feet and , barely aware of her action , hit the old woman as hard as she could on the side of the head , knocking her against the wall . |
| 3 | He claimed that an expanded L Detachment could on the same night simultaneously attack the ten most important aerodromes in Libya and Cyrenaica , the bulk storage points on the enemy lines of communication and the main airfields in Crete , Rhodes , Greece and possibly Sicily . |
| 4 | It was felt that the more conservative backward-looking elements no longer represented a serious threat to British authority , but could on the contrary be placated and transformed into loyal allies . |
| 5 | With Süssmayr 's help , he did what work he could on the Requiem , completing the Introitus in full score , and sketching the bulk of the rest , to the end of the Hostias , in short score ( giving only details of instrumentation ) . |
| 6 | Number three you could on the filter paper I 've out some of those P H test papers . |
| 7 | He had but to comment favourably on the kittenish qualities of Babs Osborne for her to curl up as best she could on the plush seat beside him , her thumb in her mouth . |
| 8 | Carson stayed close to the walls and trod as delicately as he could on the bare boards . |
| 9 | Sycorax fainted , and Ariel bent her cheek to the discoloured cheek of the old woman and licked the salt that fell in her tears , and when she reached the cabin took her inside where the rush screens would keep the flies off her wounds , and made her as comfortable as she could on the ground , with fresh dressings on her burns , a cool soaked cloth on her forehead . |
| 10 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 11 | Somehow she rose over her excitement , though , and concentrated all she could on the task at hand . |
| 12 | They slotted them in as best they could on the flat seat backs . |
| 13 | It was pitiful , the broken blade of a dagger that he had bound with strips of rag to give him a handle , and sharpened as best he could on the edge of the stone under the window ; the worn hollow , paler in colour , was there to be seen . |