Example sentences of "could [adv] do [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Well you could perhaps do it together but be careful .
2 Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ?
3 Even when he could not do it properly he loved it , and very soon he pleased as much as he was pleased .
4 She knew that she could not do it alone .
5 Fritz wanted to do something immediately about Black Michael and his men , but Sapt and I realized that we could not do anything openly .
6 Could easily do it again . .
7 Smith , the British No 23 from Staffordshire , could hardly do anything right as Croft raced to a 4-0 lead and broke service four times en route to the first set .
8 Well , they could hardly do anything else .
9 Disconcerted , she admitted that she 'd only done this once before , that , in all honesty , I could probably do it equally well on my own .
10 She 'll hold off as long as she can ; we wo n't get much of a view , and they are saying shore batteries could n't do her much damage .
11 I always figured people became chefs when they could n't do anything else .
12 ‘ I could n't do anything else , could I ? ’
13 Could n't do anything else . ’
14 Heart-throb Nigel , who has played consultant Julian Chapman for three years , said last night : ‘ If I carried on playing Julian people would assume I could n't do anything else .
15 You could n't do anything else .
16 It seemed as if she could n't do anything right and everyone grumbled at her .
17 We could n't do anything very energetic , but we enjoyed the change , the magnificent scenery , and I appreciated the rest .
18 And we did n't bother , we could n't do anything much for these rabbits and try and kill them you know , as much as we could aye .
19 He was a wanted man in the Lebanon and UNACO could n't do anything publicly without endangering their own clandestine existence .
20 If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed .
21 Then , almost regretfully , ‘ No , no , no , we could n't do anything so terrible . ’
22 almost servant type you know , he tied himself to you and you feel he could n't do you enough for you
23 No well he could n't do it either .
24 I could n't do it again . "
25 She felt she could n't do it again and she was n't about to crawl back to tell Ned Clarke so and have him volunteer Glyn for the job .
26 — I could n't do it properly , though , what with only having the one can on me . ’
27 Now we could n't do it anyway next year , we 'll have to do it the following year as we 've heard earlier .
28 it was n't it was all at the front you could n't do it anyway
29 So you so you cou could n't do it anyway .
30 Well , I was one of the people who could n't do it even if I was n't lifting a heavy weight .
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