Example sentences of "[vb past] they could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coupled with the financial implications if carers decided they could no longer shoulder this burden the case for supporting respite care becomes overwhelming . |
| 2 | The two patients who withdrew ( numbers 6 and 13 ) felt they could no longer cope with the programme of evaluations of gastrointestinal function required in the protocol . |
| 3 | To be honest , I felt they could quite easily manipulate him . ’ |
| 4 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 5 | But a spokesman for the board said they could no longer afford the costs of the small schools and the transfer charges were the lesser of the two . |