Example sentences of "could [verb] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 2 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 3 | Then he could dissect it at will . |
| 4 | It would be very useful if we could trap all this data and stuff it into a file , then we could study it at our leisure . |
| 5 | His sideways glance told her he 'd noticed the manoeuvre but he merely smiled as if , knowing he could curtail it at any time , he was allowing her that small freedom . |
| 6 | Oh he could do it at work ? |
| 7 | I was with , and it was , I could see it at the front . |
| 8 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 9 | Anyone wishing to buy furniture out of income rather than capital could have it at the cash payment price plus 5 per cent commission , a quarter of which they had to deposit before the goods were delivered . |
| 10 | Erm , now it did cross my mind , that it would be nice just to see it and have a talk and a demonstration , but I think our meetings are too big really for that sort of demonstration , I wonder if we could have it at the handicraft afternoon . |
| 11 | She imagined she could hear it at her back , behind the house and the soft green swell of land that shielded it , could hear the breaking thud of the winter waves on the shore she had not yet seen . |
| 12 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 13 | He could point it at someone , shoot even . |
| 14 | What was needed was a good control system which would tell them where in the organization the problem lay so they could tackle it at source . |
| 15 | We could reject it at once , just as we might reject a deal which we did riot like . |