Example sentences of "could [vb infin] it [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vi knew it too , for how she could prevent it she was too shaken , at the moment , even to contemplate . |
| 2 | knew you could do it I I 'm just not erm at all sure of er how that actually works . |
| 3 | any body could do it you mean |
| 4 | I would have been boss eyed before I got out of Lynn , I could feel it you know , squint through |
| 5 | And it was a chancy business , sometimes we were very busy , sometimes we , we could er we could diversify and making some other machines like we , we did some er rotary punching machines which were instead of drilling a hole , you could punch it you see . |
| 6 | er , so that Angela could use it you know . |
| 7 | If we could have it in writing and we could publicise it I 'm sure they would where to go and how to do it . |
| 8 | I tell my students during my evolution and behaviour course not to use the F word and the F word is fitness and I advise them strongly not to , and if I could ban it I would . |
| 9 | I think we could sell it I think we could sell it for |
| 10 | Sometimes members of the the Yorkshire team Yeah you could have it you could have a a capital on that . |
| 11 | Well you said to me he could have it he said I 'll have tonight . |
| 12 | But nevertheless you know , if you could get it and you could manage it it will relieve the bloody boredom would n't it ? |
| 13 | So one way we could write it we could sort of use algebra could n't we ? |
| 14 | Well and this is it I mean , where we could afford it they could n't ! |
| 15 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
| 16 | If I could find it I could sleep there . |
| 17 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 18 | She could see that the captain believed all this — there was certainty in the peacock imminence around the woman 's curly hair — but whether she herself could accept it she was n't so sure . |