Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] they could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone was devastated , the community was shattered when they heard , people were crying at the gates , children were very nervous I heard they could n't sleep , so they were very affected . |
| 2 | I thought they could n't join them . |
| 3 | Sometimes I thought they could actually see these people , as they talked . |
| 4 | I find they resemble grit and taste the same — even the health store from which I bought them could not enlighten me . |
| 5 | In the dream she was smiling , holding out her hands to the man and the children , but her smile slowly faded as she realised they could n't see her . |
| 6 | Sally knew her mother had trouble making ends meet on the nine pounds ten shillings a week that her father brought home from his job as an electrician 's mate and she did n't have the heart to plead for luxuries she knew they could not afford as Paula did . |
| 7 | She wished they could both make it up and release her from this terrible trap . |
| 8 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 9 | We said they could n't have the corpse if we did n't get it — that 's by the by — but it 's understood by both sides that this is the last of such meetings . |
| 10 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 11 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 12 | They decided they could n't do much about the rape , but they dealt with the wife beating by publicly humiliating and parading the culprits ! |
| 13 | But the news leaked out and they decided they could n't wait . |
| 14 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 15 | But they felt they could n't do it . |
| 16 | I do n't think there were many people in debt because they knew they could n't afford to go into debt you know . |
| 17 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 18 | I would say conditions were a wee bit easier a wee bit you had a wee bit more freedom because they knew they could not replace anybody if they gave the sack . |
| 19 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 20 | They regarded the occupation of land as the essential base of family and community life , but at the same time , they knew they could only survive if they had wage-earning employment as well . |
| 21 | They also promised to use their friends in the Salvation Army as supports at times when they thought they could not cope by themselves . |
| 22 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 23 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |
| 24 | Only two weeks ago they complained they could not afford to fund the teachers ’ pay award . ’ |
| 25 | They said they could just hear me did n't they Meryl ? |
| 26 | So Mericlean sent it away with his P forty five to have it changed and they said they could n't accept it that they 'd have to re-apply or something . |
| 27 | No , well he wa it was the council , they said they could n't afford it . |
| 28 | Indeed they said they could even help , and make the changes for the better . |
| 29 | The last show of the tour was in Atlanta and I decided to give a little party for the singers and musicians and the crew and I tried to rent a banquet room at the hotel , but because it was Thanksgiving Weekend , they said they could only give me a suite . |
| 30 | I went to see it but the lady running it said they could n't take me . |