Example sentences of "could [vb infin] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure sure how we could build it into the criteria of But it 's it 's a point which would obviously have to be borne in mind in terms of the str you know , the planning process . |
| 2 | Leonora watched him go with mixed feelings , not really sure she could make it to the bathroom alone , despite her fine words . |
| 3 | ‘ You could make it to the end now , and I 'll tell old Sam you 've done a length . ’ |
| 4 | With fifteen laps to go , the race was his : if he could make it to the end . |
| 5 | She was Labour , she said , but was n't sure she could make it to the polls . |
| 6 | She sincerely hoped that she could make it to the track before any car came because she knew exactly what a mess she looked . |
| 7 | If we could make it through the torrent to the bend ahead … |
| 8 | That you could make it in the movies with no boobs to speak of was , until recently , an alien notion . |
| 9 | ‘ That was when I knew he could make it in the bigtime , ’ he says . |
| 10 | At my mother 's I could dry it in the garden . |
| 11 | a derivative of it , which gave you the same high that ecstasy does and er , and if you did n't it from the doctor you could buy it on the street . |
| 12 | This chapter examines reasons for using video in language teaching and considers when and how we could introduce it into the syllabus and into the lesson . |
| 13 | We could hang it over the stairs instead of that fish . |
| 14 | Well I could screw it to the wall . |
| 15 | But this was n't his case ; he could discuss it with the detachment of a man who has a professional interest but no responsibility . |
| 16 | She could sense it in the way men talked to her , the sideways glances of strangers . |
| 17 | Inside her she felt a power she could never manage to express ; it was trapped inside her like water under the ground and she was the only one with the dowser 's twigs who knew where it lay and could bring it to the surface . |
| 18 | Some critics believe it is already out of control and that the wave of public sector pay claims likely in the aftermath of Labour 's defeat could tip it over the top . |
| 19 | He wants he 'll send us a er a rough erm sponsorship form cos I said we could do it on the computer you know , the |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | She could do it on the back an'all , she 's got a third of an acre of garden , it 's bloody massive . |
| 22 | Could do it with the enema syringe in the bath . |
| 23 | They now told him , in no uncertain terms , that if he had something important to communicate , he could do it in the plant car park during the lunch break , or after working hours . |
| 24 | Maybe , maybe maybe I could do it from the theatre , would , would help |
| 25 | Snow settled on the blanket and he could feel it on the back of his neck . |
| 26 | He could feel it in the bite of the breeze , the faintly golden light of the afternoon . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Because the rope used to come down through here so they could ring it in the cloakroom . |
| 30 | ‘ We had n't quite reached that point , ’ says Mr Johnson , ‘ but we could see it on the horizon . ’ |