Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] it at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 2 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 3 | He had fought off his anger , but Jenna could still see it at the back of his eyes . |
| 4 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
| 5 | He added : ‘ Ferzana wanted to watch TV and could n't do it at the family gathering . ’ |
| 6 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 7 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 8 | He could n't play it at the time , but it made some really great noises . |
| 9 | I knew everything , they could n't believe it at the hospital . |
| 10 | I think it would be nice , and then we could actually discuss it at the next planning meeting which I presume , which is the twentieth |