Example sentences of "could [verb] them [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment can offset some effects of menopause , including brittle bone disease — osteoporosis — but the study reveals that the wrong kind of HRT could expose them to the risk of womb cancer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We could hang them on the walls . |
| 4 | The women 's group 's orientation was towards action : ‘ There was no way we could beat them in the courts . |
| 5 | ‘ You could watch them from the window , ’ he says . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I could do them on the train to the City some morning every week . ’ |
| 7 | He could feel them at the small of his back , feel the scratch of the lavender garland which she still held . |
| 8 | ‘ I could see them at the hotel . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The tears were streaming down his face ; I could see them in the light from my room . |
| 11 | ‘ I could see them from the window in that place . |
| 12 | Jed could see them from the car , drinking beers and swapping jokes . |
| 13 | Groups of teachers could use them as the basis of informal discussion groups . |
| 14 | ‘ I could store them in the loft for you instead . ’ |
| 15 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 16 | Now he was n't held down , he could unleash them on the world . |
| 17 | You could chase them around the racetrack . |
| 18 | I 've only done seven Well there 's twenty tapes and I 've got ta do as many as I can , I have n't done half of them yet , but if I could have them over the weekend I 'd be able to do loads more cos I 'm working on Saturday , I 'm going out Saturday , I think |
| 19 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 20 | ‘ Secret people , ’ she said , ‘ who do not seem to have any business that could take them into the forest . ’ |
| 21 | He could hear them in the rooms above . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You could drag them to the pitch but you could n't make them perform . |
| 24 | Rehearsals , if you could distinguish them with the name . |
| 25 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 26 | The court heard that Jones scoured the Penrhys estate after the burglary and took his friends to Mr Penrose 's house because he believed he could lead them to the culprits . |
| 27 | AN anonymous phone call to police could lead them to the mother of the newborn baby boy abandoned on a golf course . |
| 28 | You could put them in the fridge , but many like a fluctuating temperature which would be extremely hard to simulate ! |
| 29 | You could put them in the sitting room . |
| 30 | 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 |