Example sentences of "they could [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apprentices er did n't start before six o'clock in the morning of course they could n't start apprentice before six o'clock in the morning until he was maybe in his last year then it would be either one o'clock or two o'clock in the morning . |
| 2 | They could n't make head or tail of me , could n't think what was wrong with me . |
| 3 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 4 | He could n't speak Spanish and they could n't speak English . |
| 5 | They could n't get work and my poor old Dad went miles round these outside villages , on a a old lady 's push-bike , trying to find work . |
| 6 | A they could n't er they could n't get er th they could n't provide accommodation for all the hundreds that they were , you see . |
| 7 | Certainly not , and I think that that 's one of the things that causes people to be to switch off when you mention computers and think ‘ oh , I ca n't understand that ’ because their experience at school perhaps was that they could n't understand mathematics anyway . |
| 8 | They felt so grateful to the CWPR for protecting them — even though they could n't afford pigswill and potato peelings for their supper anymore . |
| 9 | The girls who sign up for fashion 's survival course say they could n't imagine life on the other side of the camera . |
| 10 | Most of her friends from school lived with their parents , and most of them were poor ; they could n't have Jamila with them . |
| 11 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 12 | General Westmoreland might successfully call for reinforcements , until there were 510 000 American combat troops in Vietnam , with 50000 South Koreans and smaller contingents from the Philippines , Australia and New Zealand : they could not secure victory . |
| 13 | They could not reach agreement and so in the end two definitions emerged in the document : 1 . |
| 14 | But they could not quell Crown , who got his head to a free kick in the 68th minute , nor Bennett , who pounced . |
| 15 | But they could not make love . |
| 16 | And he was right , for unless they could lure the English across into the open they could not make use of their greater numbers or the advantage of the ground . |
| 17 | Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning : they could not anticipate stability in government programs . |
| 18 | Again in accordance with the Act , they could not refuse election , nor could they take part while in office in any contract to supply the necessities of the House ( with the notable exception of building and repair work ) . |
| 19 | They too were determined to ‘ modernize ’ biology , but they could not abandon fieldwork because the phenomena they wished to study could only be observed in the wild . |
| 20 | They could not avoid criticism but they could usually ignore it . |
| 21 | They could not go side by side . |
| 22 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 23 | From the mid eighteenth century , in theory at least , they could not lose rank , estate , honour , or life without trial by their peers , and they became immune to corporal punishment . |
| 24 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 25 | But Palestinians rejected the offer and said they could not resume peace talks until all the deportees were returned . |
| 26 | The counteroffensive launched by the industrial bourgeoisie with the aid of the state , however , exposed the fragility of the position of semiskilled workers ; despite their strategic position in the production process , without support of skilled sections they could not halt production . |
| 27 | The function of this behaviour is probably a defence system against dislodgement in cold weather ( when they could not re-attach-see p. 303 ) . |
| 28 | The estate in Bradford where people told us they could not get credit because it had a reputation for housing defaulters ( see Appendix II , section 5 ) is an example of a physical credit ghetto , and depth-interview respondents in Finsbury ( London ) told us that their experience suggested that ‘ it has a bad name for credit ’ . |
| 29 | When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks . |
| 30 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |