Example sentences of "[prep] it and could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Restlessly Leith moved over to the window , but while the view from her room was quite exquisite , she saw nothing of it and could see only Naylor 's furious face as he accused her of leading Travis on . |
2 | Joan had thought of it and could understand Anne 's feelings . |
3 | Occasionally this contrivance could overshadow the less congenial reality which lay behind it and could override the more mundane , everyday exploitation of work on the land , but this , given the conditions under which farm workers lived and worked , was only sporadically successful . |
4 | Potter paddled for it and could have made it . |
5 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |