Example sentences of "they could [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them , Japan was a magnet , promising them wages many times what they could earn at home , but according to one Pakistani worker who yesterday decided to speak out publicly , the reality was very different . |
| 2 | You know , if they could n't go and be a brick-layer , but they could sit at home , and you know , stick stamps on envelopes , or whatever , earn some money , then they might have to do that because they have n't got this plan . |
| 3 | Mrs Kettering wanted three girls and a fortyish couple so that they could sit by candlelight on their terrace , so that she could be taken for Sandra and Hugh for … but what was Mr Kettering 's Christian name ? |
| 4 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 5 | " They could go to university and become nurses and teachers . |
| 6 | they could go to parish hall but I 'm thinking to myself well why bother ? |
| 7 | They could go into land without asking permission and farmers would not even say a word , but that has been upset now . |
| 8 | As Moran encouraged them they could go without guilt . |
| 9 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 10 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 11 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 12 | At home , women may have all the rights they could want on paper , but they often vanish in a cloud of prejudice when you try to put them into practice ! |
| 13 | There was n't much they could do for Martinho . |
| 14 | Nothing they could do on earth would affect this destiny . |
| 15 | Though very sympathetic and sensitive to the needs of the birth family most adopters did not feel they could cope with contact . |
| 16 | They had staff they could leave in charge last year . |
| 17 | People speak to house plants , so in the latter case they could speak to money as well , which would make a change from money talking . |
| 18 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 19 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 20 | It was n't an April Fool 's Day joke when engineers working on WCUK 's VAT building in Liverpool announced to colleagues that they could walk on water ! |
| 21 | Some older people feel that they could manage at home if there were someone else living in their home , perhaps helping with light care tasks , or just ‘ keeping a watchful eye ’ . |
| 22 | Quite a number of farmers from these areas , although still with 10–15 years active service left , did not think they could benefit from training : for them it was ‘ something for the young folk ’ . |
| 23 | Or they could return to election by MPs alone , a system belatedly accepted by the Tories , in place of their former Magic Circle . |
| 24 | A few minutes later ‘ David ’ said that they would go to the bedroom where they could talk in privacy . |
| 25 | There was no way they could call for help if any of them fell ill . |
| 26 | Whenever there was trouble beyond their capacity to snuff out , they could call for air support from Khormaksa , the RAF base at Aden . |
| 27 | He said that he much preferred the money they could afford for clothing to go onto the boys ' backs , and onto her . |
| 28 | All they could see in front of them was a vast mass of barren open ground . |
| 29 | The proposed treaty changes would be then submitted to national parliaments for ratification so that they could enter into force on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 30 | No they could keep in power or remove him in turn as the say fit . |