Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] their [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An estimated 2 million households in 1987 could not meet their repayment commitments . |
| 2 | Since 1989 nearly a million summonses have been issued to people who could not pay their water bills . |
| 3 | If that were not enough , there has been a 72 per cent increase in the number of people thrown out of their homes because they could not afford their mortgage repayments . |
| 4 | When Mr John Guy , an orthopaedic surgeon at the Worcester Royal Infirmary , wrote to people on his waiting list to say that health authority cuts meant that they could not have their hip replacement operations , a patient passed a copy of his letter to Nicholas Ridley . |
| 5 | Mr Lang said that the allocations were only part of the story since authorities could also spend their capital receipts and use revenue to fund capital expenditure . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , it all happened so fast that they cancelled the sold-out dates because they simply could n't get their work permits in time . |
| 7 | People could either have their money back or tickets for another evening . |