Example sentences of "they could [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know they are all going to get a great deal out of this experience , I am deeply grateful for all the help that is being given them , they have had such a worrying time , I do not think one of them could have had a holiday this year without help , but I have faith to think it will be a good investment for the WEA . |
| 2 | They could involve matching a variety of situations or uses to a list of products or a list of items using those products ; they could involve putting the benefits of the product in order of merit or they could take the form of a question and answer quiz with specified answers from which to choose . |
| 3 | And because we were sitting in a bar in central Africa , and there was nowhere else they could go to buy a drink , they had no choice but to sit and listen . |
| 4 | Or they could 've got a plane to Paris , nobody would have stopped them . |
| 5 | Little pests until then though , scuffling and squabbling , paddling their bare feet in the sewage channels , hanging about the shop doorways for warmth and anything else they could manage to lay a hand on before the baker or the pork butcher , both mighty men , sallied forth and scattered them like a flock of starlings . |
| 6 | If they could afford to take a holiday . |
| 7 | In addition they could have gained a seat in Belfast West if Republican Clubs supporters had transferred to SDLP in that constituency as well . |
| 8 | ‘ My ancestors in the Scottish islands used to farm seaweed and if they 'd had our technology they could have made a dish like you 're eating now . |
| 9 | They 're both — were both — well over twenty-one , and they could have made a deal which essentially bought out Angela 's life interest for a capital sum and then Miss Huntley would have got the rest . ’ |
| 10 | They could have concentrated on being almost exclusively higher education establishments , offering courses at degree and sub-degree level in teacher education , general education , and vocational subjects ; they could have offered intensive courses of recurrent education for mature students ; or , indeed , they could have attempted a mixture of all or most of these . |
| 11 | Once the door was shut , they could have had a dance band going full blast and you 'd never know it in the next room . |
| 12 | The difference in the popular vote was less dramatic : for the CPP , 398 141 ( plus five uncontested seats , where presumably they could have had a landslide ) ; for the combined opposition , 299 116 votes . |
| 13 | They would allow people that they thought they could trust to accumulate a lot of debt on it . |