Example sentences of "i could [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then again , I suppose I could do it without the though . |
| 2 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 3 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
| 4 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 5 | Maybe , maybe maybe I could do it from the theatre , would , would help |
| 6 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |
| 7 | I felt I could whizz it round the country lanes on school runs and trips up to town . |
| 8 | At my mother 's I could dry it in the garden . |
| 9 | I could read it from the Oxford |
| 10 | ‘ I could put it against the farm and it would n't cost anything . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been told by my superiors that I could use it in the same way that I would to prosecute anyone found mistreating a dog . |
| 12 | Mind you I could park it down the road could n't I ? |
| 13 | Oh that 's erm ah yes , I should try to use the calculator if I could find it on the machine ! |
| 14 | Doubted if I could find it in the undergrowth . |
| 15 | But it was I mean I could hear it over the telly . |
| 16 | I was n't listening , but I could hear it from the dining room . |
| 17 | I could hear it in the house . |
| 18 | Well I could screw it to the wall . |
| 19 | no , but I could get it on the Tuesday , she said if you had n't got it by the Tuesday , to let us know on the Wednesday |
| 20 | ‘ But I do n't think I could get it past the governors . ’ |
| 21 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 22 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 23 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 24 | I felt sure I could work it through the orifice without cutting the sphincter . |
| 25 | And I rang them and see if I could cancel it for the Monday and he only , the doctor does n't sit on the Monday , so I 've got |
| 26 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 27 | I was with , and it was , I could see it at the front . |
| 28 | ‘ No , you did n't have to , you little bitch ; I could see it from the minute we arrived ! |
| 29 | I started playing when I was seven , so by the time The Stones happened it was not difficult for me to play , so I could appreciate it for the music alone . |