Example sentences of "it could do [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 While banks welcome the change , some critics fear it could do them more harm than good .
2 They had heard the unnatural humming of a pylon in the summer air ; and had actually gone beneath it , on Fiver 's assurance that it could do them no harm .
3 If the registration service was erm , asked to ma to reduce its budgets for ninety four , five and future years , by twenty thousand , it could do it in to three , four , five because it would bring forward twenty thousand pounds worth of carry forwards .
4 It could do you all the good in the world . ’
5 The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm .
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