Example sentences of "could [verb] they [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |
| 2 | I could see them clearly in the light of the foyer but they could n't see me cloaked in the anonymity of Armstrong — and what more anonymous than a black London cab ? |
| 3 | He maintained that Washington feared that the gradual shift of the states of the region into the political orbit of the Non-Aligned Movement could draw them away from the system of ‘ inter-American treaties of mutual assistance ’ . |
| 4 | The advertising market is tough at the moment , total sales fell in real terms in both August and September and no growth is expected in the run up to Christmas , and some contractors believe that combining sales staff could cost them dearly in the battle for market share . |
| 5 | Dot could hear them just inside the house . |
| 6 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |
| 7 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |