Example sentences of "they could [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original band of brothers in the primal horde were excluded from sexual intercourse with any women by their father , and they formed a group , based on homosexual feelings , to perform the act that no one of them could do as a sole individual , namely , to kill their father . |
| 2 | The trust said the prices would generally amount to about two-thirds of their market value and those who could not afford to buy them could rent through a housing association . |
| 3 | The slightest move by either of them could result in the encounter of a foot or , worse still , the brushing of knees . |
| 4 | Either one of them could walk through the door into the hall and end this angry and unhappy meeting . |
| 5 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |
| 6 | The aunts would reply indignantly that they only wanted to help , whereupon Addy would shout from the kitchen that if either of them could cook worth a damn perhaps they could be something other than a bloody nuisance . |
| 7 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 8 | It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy . |
| 9 | It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy . |
| 10 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A It is unfortunate that you have used only ‘ common ’ names , as some of them could apply to a number of species . |
| 13 | She 'd hoped to be able to take him out , perhaps for a longish walk through the forest where they could hope for a glimpse of a deer , but at its heaviest the downpour would have called for wetsuits rather than waterproofs . |
| 14 | She did not approve of amateurs , especially amateurs who thought they could step into the shoes of professional models . |
| 15 | These early settlers used to heat their cabins in winter with coal which they could gather from the mountain-sides , and this natural resource also came to the notice of entrepreneurs . |
| 16 | Mebbe they could dae wi' a night-woatchman or somethin' where you work . ’ |
| 17 | Too clever by half , they could encapsulate in a song-title what most bands could never express in a career — ‘ We Live As We Dream , Alone ’ , ‘ Capital ( It Fails Us Now ) ’ and ‘ To Hell With Poverty ’ with its neat rejoinder ‘ … let's get drunk on cheap wine ’ . |
| 18 | Too clever by half , they could encapsulate in a song-title what most bands could never express in a career — ‘ We Live As We Dream , Alone ’ , ‘ Capital ( It Fails Us Now ) ’ and ‘ To Hell With Poverty ’ with its neat rejoinder ‘ … let's get drunk on cheap wine ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Met quite a few people and she uses the town centre for erm she thinks the , they could improve on the mobiles . |
| 21 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 22 | Quickly that if what you 're saying is true that how that erm they wanted to er that they , they did n't care that this could lead to excesses because they could control of the situation , was n't that a bit damnable because supposing they could n't ? |
| 23 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 24 | The next morning , though , he found a message on his desk from Paul , asking if they could meet for a drink at lunchtime at the Club . |
| 25 | In the 1990s the report of these professional organizations who constituted a separate industry , was based on what they could discover about the applicant 's known record to date as regards prompt and full payment , on the applicant 's own assertions and , controversially ( because of possible contravention of the Data Protection Act ) information volunteered upon questioning by third parties . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | His idea was to set up a self-contained base inland from the coastal plain from which they could raid on an almost nightly basis . |
| 28 | Indeed , the way in which they could disappear beyond the ability of governments and even their owners to find them is eliciting a long , hard look at Europe 's toxic waste rules . |
| 29 | They could explain to the child why he feels as though the world has turned upside down and why his remaining parent seems so upset . |
| 30 | Okay , erm I 'm a littl I 'm a little bit I 'm a little bit worried about er this er exploitation of people and security because they 've got no proven record and no medical evidence , if he was that good this guy will be a millionaire and people will be growing hair all the time , to put somebody on the chair , without knowing if that person 's got blood pressure or heart problems , they could suffer from a s a stroke erm have er or be partially paralysed , so I I think I like to see this man here maybe in ten fifteen years time with proper proven er medical evidence . |