Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the recently-formed RAF Museum was still several years away from having its own permanent display building , D'Arcy persuaded the Air Historical Branch to release PA474 to him in order that he could properly restore it and keep it under cover . |
| 2 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |
| 3 | Feeling wretched and embarrassed , Ellie offered impulsively , ‘ I could run you into Dublin tomorrow and you could perhaps change it for something else . |
| 4 | Well you could perhaps do it together but be careful . |
| 5 | Dorothy could perhaps fax it up , cos I I had it typed out yesterday so we could , do it . |
| 6 | If you feel very strongly that the background to the Unit 's formation needs to be set out , I could perhaps draft it in the form of an ( again brief ) annexe . |
| 7 | I played the drums when I had to , I played the bass when I had to , and I felt after a while I could kinda have it as my own . |
| 8 | For instance for question one you could all answer it now . |
| 9 | Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ? |
| 10 | If you 've got the C D we could all , yes you do , we could all use it , then you could have blank tapes , and then you can tape it on cassette but I want a list of two C D's and I , in Argos if there 's a watch nan want 's the list and she want 's it this weekend . |
| 11 | And er we could all get it wrong , and we could be in the E R M , i if we go back into the E R M then er you know if they stabilize interest rates across Europe er then we could be okay . |
| 12 | She could literally feel it , absorbed by her pores and entering her bloodstream , an alien message of warning , invader already and threatening ownership , but the acrid flavour on which she was choking was that of her own resentment . |
| 13 | Blocking Allan Donald 's second ball of the innings , Haynes could only watch it roll back onto his of stump without dislodging the bail . |
| 14 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 15 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 16 | Dexter felt there was something strange about Beasley but could only place it when Lancaster 's friend raised his right hand to tug at his beard : the last two fingers were no more than withered stumps . |
| 17 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
| 18 | She still had an edge , Ma , you could only hand it to her . |
| 19 | It could only make it more painful . |
| 20 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 21 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 22 | ‘ If the weather 's dry and if you do n't mind how you treat your car — or maybe you could only do it in a jeep , I 've never tried it . |
| 23 | Forgiving sin since Christ has died , forgiving sin is easy but it was , yet , it was the hardest thing that God could do because he could only do it when Christ died for us . |
| 24 | He could only see it himself by standing with his back to one mirror and looking in another . |
| 25 | Which is sold everywhere today , you could only buy it in a chemist shop , tea . |
| 26 | It is significant , too , that the Crofters Commission , even during the period when the scheme was viable within the curriculum , could only operate it because of a gift from a private individual . |
| 27 | The Kilns venture was highly unusual , and the Lewis brothers knew that they could only afford it by taking the great risk of throwing in their lot together ; in the event the purchase price was lowered to £3,300 . |
| 28 | erm , she made me bend my head and I could only bend it a little way and she could see the spasms |
| 29 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 30 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |