Example sentences of "could [vb infin] their [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serious naturalists could sprinkle their descriptions of the internal organization of new species with references to the skill of the Creator who had designed such complex living structures . |
| 2 | She made her way to the small side gate that opened on to the alley and which in the daytime was kept permanently open so that tradesmen could make their way to the kitchens through the vegetable garden . |
| 3 | However Greene King could relaunch their bid in the near future … and even if they do n't … they 'll still be holding a forty-three per cent stake in the company |
| 4 | A nation of cricket lovers could bury their heads in the dust of the Oval and forget all about Continental goings-on . |
| 5 | They took her in their arms and lifted her gently so that she could feel their support along the length of her body . |
| 6 | She could feel their heat from the doorway . |
| 7 | Companies like the Virginia Company ran their affairs through elected committees , and this may have suggested to Sandys that the colonists could run their end of the business with the aid of an elected system as well . |
| 8 | Out of one eye , through the curtain of his rough blond hair , she could see their bodies in the mirror on the wall . |
| 9 | The launderers were at their evening meal — I could see their backs at the windows . |
| 10 | Both of them could attribute their popularity to the fact that in the old days , when opening hours were not so well controlled , they stayed open longer than others , with the result that patrons of The Cock and The Bull were usually the most tipsy . |
| 11 | A glimpse off how these ‘ compensation effects ’ could work their way through the economy is given in another study , also by the Warwick institute , on the change in employment patterns over the next 10 years . |
| 12 | The car was slowly winched out of the water so that forensic experts could begin their work with the minimum of disturbance . |
| 13 | Or you could put a little gunnysack full of food on a big boom , and you could control their speed by the way you would swing it . ’ |
| 14 | He could recognize their trades from the clothes they were wearing — dyers , carpenters , wheelwrights , masons , stevedores up from the docks , and several cordwainers : the spikes in their hands looked like daggers . |
| 15 | I do n't know cos we thought you 'd be the only one who actually managed to get a copy when nobody else could lay their fice for the af from two o'clock in the afternoon yeah F finalised |
| 16 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 17 | To put it another way : how did they think they could share their thoughts about the trick objects with another person ? |
| 18 | They could take their money to the USA : about $27 billion left the country between 1976 and 1984 . |
| 19 | The prestige audience would be won over by movies that could take their place alongside the middle-class novel and play . |
| 20 | I could hear their feet on the stairs , then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside : ‘ Pew ! |
| 21 | Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr . |
| 22 | She could hear their voices from the sitting room . |
| 23 | After that the Bruces could renew their struggle for the throne . |
| 24 | They could fix their eye on the old enmity with Turkey ; but that was manifestly leading nowhere . |
| 25 | It also provided a forum in which French men and women of differing political persuasions could express their confidence in the CFLN and its president . |
| 26 | Amidst the excitement after that earthquake , a team of physicists from Athens University discussed how they could put their knowledge of the behaviour of solids to practical use for predicting earthquakes . |
| 27 | Working with the NI Industrial Development Board , Food from Britain organised a two-day ‘ export clinic ’ in the province , so that companies could pick their brains on the overseas potential for their products . |
| 28 | even tapers and tadpoles could play their part in the national cause . |
| 29 | At the same time , there was the paradox of a growing lordly authority among the stronger thegns who could impose their will on the rival groups . |
| 30 | And B T so and Imperial who 's had a different experience to you after a takeover bid from a new employer clearly wants a legal framework , steel braces put within Trust Law to make it much more clear where power lies in th the operati operation of the trust and that possibly one one of those steel braces would the law would relate on h who could get their hands on the surplus and in what conditions . |