Example sentences of "could [verb] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could make the place pay . |
| 2 | When we were seven or eight we could clear the place up as good as my Mum … but I 've seen some girls — like my aunt 's little girl and she 's fifteen , she 's just hopeless . |
| 3 | Then words , distant and unknown to him , began to form in him and to speak through him , and a name loomed before him as if he could feel the place it represented ; and the name was Callanish . |
| 4 | and get in the way and if only the Civil Service could run the place then it would be a lot better . |
| 5 | I could see the place now , along on the right : huge , red brick , with rows and rows of identical windows , the top ones with bars on . |
| 6 | I called on you earlier but there was no reply and I could see the place was in darkness . |
| 7 | But here he had to leave me to attend to stores which were being brought on board , and some twenty minutes later I could see the place for myself . |
| 8 | Indeed , as Hazel turned the point and stopped to look about him , he could see the place where Cowslip must have come out . |
| 9 | I could see the place some way off . |
| 10 | and into these trees and where we were up there no one could see us and we could see the place , so we would see all the gaps in the fences . |
| 11 | Before he could go out so as to wait until he could have the place to himself , the figure levered himself up , bowed to the altar , and turned and saw him . |
| 12 | The Uranium Institute , based in London , has calculated that the 816 tonnes of HEU that might be released from American and Soviet disarmament could take the place of 166,000 tonnes of natural uranium , roughly three years ' worth of world demand . |
| 13 | Although the 1624 Act against letting an individual hold a monopoly meant that no businessman could take the place of a trading company , there was no reason why an individual should not hold a charter as a great landlord . |
| 14 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 15 | He had honestly believed he could take the place of everything she had ever known if only she was willing to give him the chance . |
| 16 | This surely gives grounds for greater weapons development and investment ; if a more accurate weapon could take the place of one hundred others . |
| 17 | No baby could take the place of our James , say Bulgers |
| 18 | Unless I could find the place where my would-be killer had brought me out , and get back in . |
| 19 | The back kitchen door was unlocked — no one could find the place without a map , said Rory , and so what if they did ? — and inside it was cool and deathly quiet , save only for the buzzing of a fly or two . |
| 20 | Allen wondered what comedy they could get up to in a hotel room , and he decided they could smash the place up , with everything falling apart around them . |
| 21 | Nobody could deny the place of Michelangelo , Shakespeare , Newton , Mozart or Voltaire in the firmament of European culture . |