Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm , she made me bend my head and I could only bend it a little way and she could see the spasms |
| 2 | His arm still lay there , so gently that she could not find it a pressure . |
| 3 | Yes , if I could just extend it a little . |
| 4 | You could just change it a little . |
| 5 | I could just see it a local farmer coming out with his gun |
| 6 | The high-relief figure — one could hardly call it a three-dimensional effigy — is placed on a plain black ledger lying on the floor , and appears as a body rising vertically from the grave . |
| 7 | Where the lawn had been grew a large clump you could hardly call it a copse — of coconut palms . |
| 8 | ‘ You could hardly call it an operation — ten minutes on the table and a local anaesthetic , ’ Richard replied . |
| 9 | And with tons of topsoil , they could still make it a goodish course . |
| 10 | ‘ You could always consider it a last request . ’ |
| 11 | I could n't face it a second time . |
| 12 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ What about your lean old arse — I could n't call it a bum in all conscience — grinding away on the saddle of your bike ? ’ |
| 14 | I do n't mind paying for it , if they could even reduce it a bit |
| 15 | Well you could even call it a system . |