Example sentences of "could [vb infin] it [noun] " in BNC.

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1 got twenty one , twenty two , twenty seven , twenty eight , twenty , twenty plus something , we could make that N if you like instead of X. We could make it N , N is just some number from about nought to nine .
2 Dorcas had changed the wiring so that he could make it ring whenever he liked .
3 The call the night before : Mohammed ca n't fly tomorrow , his gland has come up again , anyway , he mentioned your name , said you 're rated for the 35 , wonder if you could make it £200 cash and your exes ?
4 Before Lachlan could free it Hector had tripped him and soused him , for the cold water to bring him to his senses .
5 Mr Yeltsin is its best known member and probably the only one who could give it party discipline and a distinctive ideology .
6 morning but evening time I could do it love .
7 and if they could do it time
8 And how it fits into your life , I have the feeling that er if I could fix it so that I could do it sort of in the house , by the way , I could , I could do certain things and I could stick to them , and I would see that I 'd do them .
9 could do it sort of December January time ,
10 I was n't sure I could do it justice and he was n't sure either .
11 er , mm , how we got the days of the week because I said that could name it Monday because that was the day everybody got their money , got paid
12 the inside nought instead of the outside , or you could have it upside down or anything else , but that 's pointing North , you must line it up so it points North , right , now what bearing am I from you ?
13 You could call it Reservoir Bitches .
14 If you could call it afternoon when there 'd been no lunch .
15 So capitalism has to export it over its boundary and that 's one of the company , what you could call it period , for example , erm
16 We could call it community work , could n't we . ’
17 Or you could call it Brinkley Centenary
18 Because you produced it on loose pages I could exhibit it month by month as you organised it .
19 Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money .
20 Jake jumped out and strode round to the passenger door , but before he could open it Kirsty appeared , flinging herself at him and squealing , ‘ Uncle Jake !
21 Well I saw this present I thought I could find it sort of erm well I suppose I would off everywhere .
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