Example sentences of "they could [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slightest move by either of them could result in the encounter of a foot or , worse still , the brushing of knees . |
| 2 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 3 | It was fortunate that the weather was good and they could sleep in the open , but that did not solve the immediate problem of how they were to be fed . |
| 4 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 5 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 6 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 7 | The police had been round to have a supportive chat ; there was nothing else that they could do in the circumstances . |
| 8 | Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time … |
| 9 | With a bag of air inside them , they could float in the water without perpetually labouring their tails . |
| 10 | They navigated by the , by the ley lines , that 's why you find monuments built up on hills so they could stand in the middle of the of nowhere and they could see a , they could either feel it through their feet |
| 11 | While , understandably , this mild recommendation was all they could make in the circumstances , there is no disguising the fact that , for the next five years at least , non-advanced further education in Wales badly needs the infusion of more resources . |
| 12 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 13 | The prospect of remaining unmarried was undoubtedly materially harsher for working class women , because the average wage they could command in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries was below subsistence level . |
| 14 | In the seventeenth century some preformationists claimed they could detect in the head of the sperm cell a tiny person in miniature — a homunculus — just waiting to emerge . |
| 15 | After they 'd used the phone , Yvonne said they could wait in the lounge . |
| 16 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 17 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |
| 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 | It makes all the shoppers feel as if they could live in the style of Jane Austen . |
| 20 | They tied the car so they could get in the vice . |
| 21 | ‘ This time last year we had question marks against some players — whether they could play in the First Division . |
| 22 | They went to the pre-qualifying and , if they made it , they could play in the tournaments . |
| 23 | Erm for example , on the on the er catapults , we were capable of making a catapult erm that was so efficient , that on one particular occasion the Americans and the British Navy had a competition to see how many planes they could put in the air er in a certain number of minutes . |
| 24 | For years afterwards , Jay 's heart gave a lurch every time she passed the place where they parked — Astrid drove the three hundred yards from her house so they could kiss in the car before she went to Timisia . |