Example sentences of "they could [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 2 | The German 's rates differed from girl to girl , and with some he had an arrangement that he received a commission rather than a rent per room ; the advantage here for the girls was that they could pay him at the end of the night , rather than each time they used the room And to ensure they did n't even think about cheating , he employed a " caretaker " whose job was to keep a tally of the girls and their customers . |
| 3 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 4 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 5 | My legs are wobbling , they could dump me on the lino . |
| 6 | Luckily a team of waiters offered a line of protection , though even they could do nothing about the way he was levelling those dark eyes at her as if with deliberate and enigmatic meaning . |
| 7 | If they 're all like this they could infect everything in the Domain . |
| 8 | Nevertheless he was fond of Kylie and still wanted to have an evening out if they could manage it despite the attention of the ever-present photographers . |
| 9 | Only a small proportion of his men were actually with him now , others coming in singly and in groups as they could disentangle themselves from the embroilment . |
| 10 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 11 | If only they could see me in the office now I 'd turn more than a few heads . |
| 12 | The whirlwind raged at the window … but although they strained to listen , they could hear nothing from the corridor beyond . |
| 13 | He was silent for a while and they could hear someone on the telephone in the main room . |
| 14 | I called my mum and dad and asked if they could take me to the hospital . |
| 15 | So that they could get it for the turn of the new leaf of the quarter . |
| 16 | Although the depopulation of the Western Isles has resulted at least partly from such malign human interventions as the clearances , it is doubtful if they could support anything like the past numbers at levels of living acceptable by present-day standards . |
| 17 | Many Yugoslav army officers had asked how they could put themselves at the disposal of the government , he said . |
| 18 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 19 | On 28 May , the DIA video gear arrived from Lebanon , and on the 29th , he flew home alone with it , having been assured that Mary-Claude and Sarah would be protected until such time as they could join him in the States with Mary-Claude 's sister Giselle . |
| 20 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 21 | but then they could hit you on the head if they saw you 've got it with you . |
| 22 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 23 | ‘ Because the rope used to come down through here so they could ring it in the cloakroom . |