Example sentences of "they could [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily a team of waiters offered a line of protection , though even they could do nothing about the way he was levelling those dark eyes at her as if with deliberate and enigmatic meaning . |
| 2 | If they 're all like this they could infect everything in the Domain . |
| 3 | The whirlwind raged at the window … but although they strained to listen , they could hear nothing from the corridor beyond . |
| 4 | He was silent for a while and they could hear someone on the telephone in the main room . |
| 5 | Although the depopulation of the Western Isles has resulted at least partly from such malign human interventions as the clearances , it is doubtful if they could support anything like the past numbers at levels of living acceptable by present-day standards . |
| 6 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |