Example sentences of "[det] [prep] them could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub . |
| 2 | If you let somebody else get stuff on your book , and some of them could n't pay it , you know , you 've no means of paying it . |
| 3 | Some of them could n't afford it . |
| 4 | Some of them could n't afford i You had I think you had to put something in . |
| 5 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
| 6 | Despite the bitter weather they strolled slowly along the Riva degli Schiavoni as though neither of them could quite bear the thought of the evening 's ending . |
| 7 | Her expression hovered , as Derek suspected his own did , on the brink of admitting what neither of them could quite believe . |
| 8 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 9 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 10 | But , with the Great War looming , the future will be harsher than any of them could ever expect … |
| 11 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |