Example sentences of "[prep] it [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Alice told her a little of how she felt ( some of it she could tell no one ) , and how she was angry with God as well as Belle Maman , Aunt Violet said God would understand : ‘ He is All Wise , Alice . |
| 2 | I enjoyed what little of it I could manage , though . |
| 3 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 4 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 5 | I mean there 's , there 's the practical side of actually having , I mean well there 's various aspects of it you could have someone as a figurehead |
| 6 | If the existing carpet is in reasonable condition but you 're sick to death of it you could add rugs to cheer it up . |
| 7 | Come to think of it you could call anyone by a name which is not their own and make them sound stupid . |
| 8 | So you were n't aware of what he could n't do , so much as what he could do and did do , and how little of it you could understand . |
| 9 | The countryside we drove through was beautiful , but behind it we could see the long , dark , frightening hills of the moor . |
| 10 | It was white now , and behind it you could see the shape . |
| 11 | With it he could express the body , the mass and density of things . |
| 12 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |
| 13 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 14 | I mean it would n't be the truth but you , if they did n't look into it you could say it could n't you ? |
| 15 | Actually , there was a footpath through Wardle Wood from near her village , and if she had dared to go along it she could have walked to Brownies in not much more time than it took her to ride by way of the long winding lane ; but she was sure she had n't the courage to go through the witch 's wood by herself . |
| 16 | From it one could see lights twinkling in the little town below , and fishing-boats with lights at sea . |
| 17 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 18 | Framed in it they could see a letter . |
| 19 | There must surely be somebody already in it who could do it . |
| 20 | Beyond it he could see the bright flag of a bus stop and the — bus shelter . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 25 | But , as long as the music had doh ray mes written on it I could play with one hand but |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If we wanted to be self-consciously intellectual about it we could say that this little argument uses the logical principle of the distributive law . |
| 28 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 29 | When you find out about it you could have Dr. Zimmerman lodge a complaint if you want . ’ |
| 30 | Through it she could feel the steady rhythm of his heart-beat , only now it held a threat : the fragility of life . |