Example sentences of "[prep] it he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 2 | His companion 's tongue had swollen and his mouth was so full of it he could hardly speak . |
| 3 | To-night he must make the shortest time of it he could to Strata Marcella , reassure himself that his father 's grave had not been desecrated , and warn the prior of Isambard 's malignant interest in it . |
| 4 | With it he could express the body , the mass and density of things . |
| 5 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |
| 6 | ‘ The agreement itself is not enforceable against the other contracting party ; and if he had paid under it he could , having paid under protest , recover back the sums paid , as money had and received to his use . |
| 7 | The agreement itself is not enforceable against the other contracting party ; and if he had paid under it he could , having paid under protest , recover back the sums paid , as money had and received to his use . |
| 8 | The agreement itself is not enforceable against the other contracting party ; and if he had paid under it he could , having paid under protest , recover back the sums paid , as money had and received to his use . |
| 9 | Not only throughout Britain , but in many parts of Europe and in the New World , it was widely accepted that if a person succeeded in erecting a dwelling on common or waste land between sunset and sunrise and lighting a fire in it he could not lawfully be dispossessed . |
| 10 | Beyond it he could see the bright flag of a bus stop and the — bus shelter . |
| 11 | He always needed that : without it he could not feel easy in himself . |
| 12 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 13 | When it came to it he could n't kill the happiness he saw in her . |
| 14 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 15 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 16 | He saw lettering on it he could not make out , although he had the presence of mind to record the scene on a video . |
| 17 | That caveat notwithstanding , those close to Mr Bush insist that there was an effort to get a non-military solution , and that if Saddam Hussein had reached out for it he could have walked away from Kuwait with something gained from his adventure . |
| 18 | He put his telescope to his eye , and through it he could see the shapes of ten dogs pulling a sledge over the ice . |
| 19 | He got so good at it he could actually produce a thought-bubble ! |