Example sentences of "could [prep] the [num] " in BNC.

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1 Well this is this is what I was trying to work out looking at the banking erm module that Sia , Sandra 's just given me could for the nine weeks right ?
2 I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard .
3 She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig .
4 You ca n't behave in 1905 as you could in the 1840s , I could n't rush about India doing good and performing wondrous deeds , it 's absurd — ’
5 Nor can they reduce the burden of government debt by inflation , as they could in the 1970s , because the abolition of capital controls prevents it .
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