Example sentences of "[conj] they could [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | An elevator trim that rotates in a different plane to nose up , nose down is a revolting arrangement and when , many years ago , the College of Air Training at Hamble ordered a considerable number of Apaches they insisted on having the trim wheels between the two front seats where they could work in a logical fashion . |
| 2 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 3 | Ideally , both father and son should attend so that they could discuss from a common base . |
| 4 | To get this charter , Ayr had to demonstrate that they could manufacture at a ‘ landed cost ’ competitive with other Digital plants , particularly those in the Far East . |
| 5 | The support workers were encouraged to be fairly flexible with the hours worked , so that they could respond to a crisis with their client , or to any temporary increased need for their services . |
| 6 | Generations of British people have been happily walking into pubs for years and drinking alcohol that they could buy for a fraction of the price in a supermarket or off-licence . |
| 7 | United 's goals have dried up though … and they could do with a man like Southend 's Stan Collymore who hit the winner 12 minutes from time … he 's worth over a million pounds … and left Oxford penniless on saturday … |
| 8 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 9 | The next morning , though , he found a message on his desk from Paul , asking if they could meet for a drink at lunchtime at the Club . |
| 10 | Again , they shrug , if they could survive with a front-row of Ricky Evans , Nigel Meek and Hugh Williams-Jones against England , they should hardly be in undue trouble against Scotland — particularly as they will be under the eye of the same referee in France 's Joel Dume . |
| 11 | In other words they needed to experience the ‘ sanctuary game ’ before they could cope with a ‘ breaking of sanctuary game ’ . |
| 12 | The Rex/Olympia doubling soon finished but before they could relax to a comparatively simple regime of five shows a day , they were told to double at the Paramount . |