Example sentences of "could [verb] them in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 2 | The women 's group 's orientation was towards action : ‘ There was no way we could beat them in the courts . |
| 3 | You could see them in the bull-neck , in the big shoulders , in the thick arms , in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs . |
| 4 | The tears were streaming down his face ; I could see them in the light from my room . |
| 5 | ‘ I could store them in the loft for you instead . ’ |
| 6 | He could hear them in the rooms above . |
| 7 | By virtue of her fluent Hebrew she once led prayers at a Passover feast of wealthy Moroccan Jews — the only one present who could read them in the absence of a rabbi . |
| 8 | You could put them in the fridge , but many like a fluctuating temperature which would be extremely hard to simulate ! |
| 9 | You could put them in the sitting room . |
| 10 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 11 | So you your Mam could shove them in the oven and roast them for you , take your own bucket . |
| 12 | But the home government always resisted this simple but dangerous solution , passing up chances to expand territorially if that meant the helots could stab them in the back — or eat them raw . |