Example sentences of "they could [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some people reckon they could n't distinguish between the mascots and the players before kick-off , and that 's a tribute to the youngsters who took care of Liverpool . |
| 2 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 3 | Well they could n't score in the Premier League last season which is why they came down , they still ca n't score . |
| 4 | The pause after the first shot making sure they 'd killed him which is n't easy to do with a heart shot but they could n't go for the head because the sight line would n't fit with shooting at the President 's head — ’ |
| 5 | Well it so happened that two of the aircrewmen were burnt enough , not real serious , but burned enough that they had to use the ground spare from another squadron , they could n't go on the mission . |
| 6 | But even they could n't dance to the music . |
| 7 | You see , they could n't rely on the local beys not to forget it had been abolished . |
| 8 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 9 | ‘ They could n't get through the undergrowth before . ’ |
| 10 | They could n't get to the top ; there were too many cars . |
| 11 | We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land . |
| 12 | so they could n't get along the roads and I think the cof the probably the funeral was put off as long as they could put it off . |
| 13 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 14 | A boiler had overturned , they could n't turn off the water . |
| 15 | Look out for the splatter ( a knuckle-cracking heavy who uses more force than a bouncer ) , pay a quick visit to heaven and hell , and as for Santa 's in-store ‘ grotty ’ … it 's tacky , vulgar , and full of overpriced garbage they could n't sell during the year ! |
| 16 | He once pulled a switchblade on his director because they could n't agree on the way to do a scene . |
| 17 | ‘ But after what he did , maybe they could n't live with the name . ’ |
| 18 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 19 | Although he knew that they could not reach beyond the full extension of their chains , Frankie was never fully convinced that he was safe from them . |
| 20 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 21 | If anyone believes for a moment that we should forget about the cause of asylum seekers , I ask them to read some of the evidence of people who fled from Chile , El Salvador , Burma and so many other places where they could not cope with the oppression against them . |
| 22 | The SPD too decided that they could not rely on the FDP to provide a solid , lasting majority in parliament and Herbert Wehner was all in favour of a ‘ Grand Coalition ’ . |
| 23 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 24 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |
| 25 | Now the three Scottish judges ruled that they could not decide on the matter , a decision , as they must have realized , that was profoundly to affect the trial . |
| 26 | The CNAA , he explained , would take pressure off the University of London , and if other universities were not prepared to enter the field of external degrees ‘ they could not complain at the creation of the new body ’ . |
| 27 | The tide was high , so they could not climb on the rocks and breakwaters , or explore the caves . |
| 28 | They could not agree on the Gulf conflict and seem to have no agreed middle east policy . |
| 29 | … there was , of course , a dispute between the parties at the time in question in the sense that they could not agree on the amount of the yearly rent ; but it was not a dispute in which each had formulated a view which was then placed for decision before the independent surveyor . |
| 30 | Having decided that Rome had to be treated as a member of the civilized community of the Greek world they could not apply to the study of Roman life those methods which they used , very competently , to describe barbarians . |