Example sentences of "they could [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not like they were in the dreams he had had recently , where they could torment him without his being able to retaliate . |
| 2 | If you are earning more money and you hav n't got enough points , they could move you from a specialist department to a police station . |
| 3 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 4 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 5 | Alongside the rivalry which characterized foreign relations in the Middle East , most governments desired peace if they could achieve it without weakening their own position . |
| 6 | The German 's rates differed from girl to girl , and with some he had an arrangement that he received a commission rather than a rent per room ; the advantage here for the girls was that they could pay him at the end of the night , rather than each time they used the room And to ensure they did n't even think about cheating , he employed a " caretaker " whose job was to keep a tally of the girls and their customers . |
| 7 | They would have no direct control over such institutions except that they could pay them for particular services . |
| 8 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 9 | My legs are wobbling , they could dump me on the lino . |
| 10 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 11 | Even Samuel Montagu had said the purpose of the Crown Suppliers was to provide for departments more efficiently than they could do it for themselves or from any other source . |
| 12 | Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure . |
| 13 | I 'm I 'm I 'm really surprised how they could do it like that and these flowers would honestly ! |
| 14 | If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well . |
| 15 | Town have been getting stronger and wiser by the week … they could do it against Blackburn … |
| 16 | If that did n't work she 'd run like hell and scream like a banshee , but she was n't about to tell him that , especially since those long legs of his looked as though they could overtake her in seconds . |
| 17 | Almost immediately they began working out the details of their new counselling service — or , as they preferred to call it , their chat-line — and how and where they could fit it into their already busy schedule . |
| 18 | Nevertheless he was fond of Kylie and still wanted to have an evening out if they could manage it despite the attention of the ever-present photographers . |
| 19 | It would only take a couple of houses to be knocked down and they could make it into a dual carriage way . |
| 20 | I used to tell trainees that it was their first aptitude test to see if they could make it over Stamford Street ! ’ was not too upset to find that she will have to devise a new aptitude test from the summer . |
| 21 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 22 | Even the heyday of tomb-robbing was over ; his scavenging could n't be called by such a piratical name and the local labourers could not be inspired to sift the soil scrupulously when they could break it with a pickaxe so much faster , and the mounted overseers might take a crack at them with a rifle butt if they dawdled . |
| 23 | So that I can go through my designs and make quite certain that there is not one collar , not one cuff detail , not the slightest influence that they could accuse me of copying from them . |
| 24 | Yeah , and there 's another couple of guys and they were saying that how strict the training was when they first took it on you know that the their masters used to beat them and everything , into submission , s said they had to have complete submission before they could train them to be what they were , you know , bring them up , teach them and train them |
| 25 | This too he dragged and tugged out of his pocket , and they both stared at it as though by doing so they could turn it into something else . |
| 26 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 27 | The military blocked everyone in on campus and the police announced that they could shoot you without asking questions . |
| 28 | His letter is minuted tersely in Heath 's hand : ‘ They could invite him to every meeting as consultant . |
| 29 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 30 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |