Example sentences of "and could [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Bury , for instance , the abbey owned the whole site and could lay it out as it pleased . |
| 2 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 3 | Betty in the bathroom could hear every word and could bear it no longer . |
| 4 | Inside her she felt a power she could never manage to express ; it was trapped inside her like water under the ground and she was the only one with the dowser 's twigs who knew where it lay and could bring it to the surface . |
| 5 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 6 | I went to inspect and could see it was a half-plucked pheasant . |
| 7 | One might remark that the working-class child considered it redundant to constantly refer to the presence of a picture since he knew that the researcher was present and could see it for himself . |
| 8 | The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone . |
| 9 | You have a first course and a second course and could call it all I do n't know what you call it really , I never do know what to call it all . |
| 10 | ‘ It is now well-established that any application of the best evidence rule is confined to cases in which it can be shown that the party has the original and could produce it but does not . ’ |
| 11 | One scheme was to transfer his legal estate to a relative or friend who was staying behind , who could look after it and administer it until he returned , or who , should the knight die abroad , could take care of it until the knight 's son reached his majority and could take it over himself . |
| 12 | She had a strong sense of the dramatic , and could use it to good effect when occasion demanded . |
| 13 | There was a sense in which both Whigs and Tories made the Revolution , and could claim it as their own ; but because of the compromises which had to be worked out , both were left feeling dissatisfied with the eventual outcome , something which helps to explain why partisan strife continued to grow in intensity after 1689 . |