Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they took them away they said we could come and reclaim them any time we wanted , if we brought ten rupees . |
| 2 | Well they found they could do it far better with a tractor and a mower . |
| 3 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 4 | Yet they reckon it could set a bad example elsewhere in Eastern Europe ( Czechoslovakia ) as well as in bigger , more important places ( India and , when their worries turn that way , the Soviet Union ) . |
| 5 | I mean if it were the case that we got on the way to establishing an appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , one where women felt comfortable and where they felt they could get the most from their educational experience , I think that would have profound impact on people 's later lives . |
| 6 | Goodness only knows what makes them tick , or why they thought they could get away with it here . |