Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Nobody could speak it worse ! " |
| 2 | They said nobody could do it . |
| 3 | Nobody could argue with that , nobody could question it , it was so . |
| 4 | It 's just a fact , nobody could predict it and there for nobody would be liable . |
| 5 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 6 | ‘ Nobody could say it was right or wrong because nobody had any insight into what the answer should be , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Nobody could say it was , tugged that treacherous inner self . |
| 8 | Story of four people this is a story of four people named everybody , somebody , anybody and nobody , there was an important job to be done and everybody was sure that somebody could do it , anybody could of done it , but nobody did , somebody got angry about that because it was everybody 's job , everybody thought anybody could do it , but nobody would . |
| 9 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |
| 10 | The Chairman placed a large digital clock on the conference table where everyone could see it . |
| 11 | She had the Monument built on top of the hill so everyone could see it as a landmark . |
| 12 | The envelope was too big for the bag , so everyone could see it . |
| 13 | They hung it to an almond tree in the square by its ankles so that everyone could see it , and when it began to rot they burned it in a bonfire , for they could not determine whether its bastard nature was that of an animal to be thrown in the river or a human being to be buried … |
| 14 | Somehow it always righted itself and reached the front , where new hands seized it and raised it high so that everyone could see it . |
| 15 | He was banging non-stop around the house all day , bellowing ‘ TELEPHONE ’ when everyone could hear it ring , sitting at the piano without even looking at the keys , and making an excruciating racket . |
| 16 | Be nice if it went up to twenty per cent in the budget cos everyone could work it out more easily , |
| 17 | She felt that nothing could destroy it now . |
| 18 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 19 | His Beyond The Fringe was so innovative that nothing could follow it . |
| 20 | Instead , there was a tall , straggly looking tree seemingly at precisely the right spot , but it was definitely not a palm ; no-one could mistake it for one . |
| 21 | It was no longer just go out and do a gig with your equipment — there were lighting men , dancers , singers , — there was so much that I think no-one could handle it and he was wanting more and more to make the show very good . |
| 22 | None could do it better than you , and … ’ |
| 23 | ( III.vi.78f. ) , because no one could answer it , then or now . |
| 24 | Not a one could do it . |
| 25 | The third one could do it physically and gets out far more . |
| 26 | No one could do it in our house-not even Albie . |
| 27 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 28 | Then one could spin it round when news , travel or holiday programmes on radio and television specify certain places and you could see where they were in relation to Britain and the rest of the world . |
| 29 | Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney . |
| 30 | One could argue it 's no good for beginners and , God , the walking — getting to the lift in the morning qualifies as ski touring . |