Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 2 | Indeed , the concept of success could scarcely apply since it worked to no clear objectives . |
| 3 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 4 | She could not tell whether it had been a matter of minutes or several hours . |
| 5 | As Robert Lovett , former Under Secretary of State , told the drafting committee , there was practically nothing that the US could not do if it wanted to . |
| 6 | Congress , before you vote on this motion , I think you should read it carefully and consider er the , what could possibly happen if it 's passed . |
| 7 | Occasionally a thin savage streak of wiry blue hinted at what the storm could really do if it tried . |
| 8 | He tried to strip off the tape , but it was too tough and his fingers were numb and he could n't find where it began . |
| 9 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |