Example sentences of "could [verb] it [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 2 | You always had a few explanations for why something did something and you could never pick out which — why it did it … you could explain it in several ways , and it just was n't positive enough for me . |
| 3 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 4 | You could regard it as that part of the personality which is contr in control of voluntary thought and movement . |
| 5 | ‘ I could give it to another paper instead , could n't I ? ’ |
| 6 | leaving it and then going back to it to see if you could integrate it plus some graphs . |
| 7 | Maybe you could present it to those workmen . |
| 8 | one of our serious of the year , we should er extend that debate er we could extend as late perhaps half past one for lunch or we could bring it to half way between half past one , so the feeling in respect of that |
| 9 | His sideways glance told her he 'd noticed the manoeuvre but he merely smiled as if , knowing he could curtail it at any time , he was allowing her that small freedom . |
| 10 | Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure . |
| 11 | No we could , we could do it for all jobs cos |
| 12 | we could do it for all jobs , and see , that 's what I saying , I mean , we 've got |
| 13 | Word reached Peter Wheeler , the Leicester coach , of a young lad at Wakefield , a full-back , a slick-running full-back at that , who not only could kerplonk the ball like a metronome between the posts but could do it with either foot . |
| 14 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 15 | And he could do it in less time . |
| 16 | For example , if it was important to distinguish between a high level and low level tone for English we could do it in this way : |
| 17 | because the editor picks it up and say ‘ I can use that because I can see an angle , I could use it in this way or that way or , |
| 18 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 19 | Then I could keep it for many months . |
| 20 | so we could take it from that stage even |
| 21 | If the worst came to the worst , she could fire it with both hands . |
| 22 | Now , at the sight of the river , Bigwig 's assurance was leaking again and unless he , Hazel , could restore it in some way , they were likely to be in for trouble . |
| 23 | I doubt if she could drive it in that time . |
| 24 | Why is it that this machine c c could trim it on all sides ? |
| 25 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 26 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |