Example sentences of "they could [verb] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found herself wondering in amazement how any of them could have listened to those songs : — |
| 2 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 3 | Im sure if they could manage to go to some obscure town on the borders of scotland last round , they could manage to ‘ waste ’ 10 seconds on Leeds . |
| 4 | He observed that the protesters did not enjoy the rights of common that had been affected , and on this basis he decided to modify the by-laws so that they could continue to apply to all the world except the commoners themselves . |
| 5 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 6 | What we do know from Allen 's recent survey of part time working in general practice is that many women working in general practice would have preferred hospital practice , particularly paediatrics , obstetrics and gynaecology , and general medicine , if they could have trained in these specialties part time . |
| 7 | I do not think that if the council , on making an inspection , had found the gate newly padlocked , they could have come to any conclusion other than that [ the defendant ] was intending to exclude everyone , including themselves , from the land . " … |
| 8 | We would have hoped that the county and district councils would have so organized their selection processes that they could have come to this examination in public fully prepared to argue the merits of geographical location . |
| 9 | They could have left at any time . |
| 10 | but then if you read the report of the match it said they could have won by more than that , they did all playing they were just unlucky , but he 's pleased with the result |
| 11 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |