Example sentences of "could [verb] they [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |
| 2 | We could describe them partly in terms of stress ( by saying , for example , that strong syllables are stressed and weak syllables unstressed ) , but until we describe what ‘ stress ’ means such a description would not be very useful . |
| 3 | I only wish we could show them more of it ’ . |
| 4 | I could see them clearly in the light of the foyer but they could n't see me cloaked in the anonymity of Armstrong — and what more anonymous than a black London cab ? |
| 5 | From where she stood , Melissa could see them only in profile , but she had a shrewd idea that they were holding hands and that Dora 's apparent indifference to their presence was concealing a mounting irritation . |
| 6 | And there were you could see them all over British Railways . |
| 7 | And then we could use them straight from that ditch as we were planting do you see . |
| 8 | Yeremi recognized plasma cannons , macro-cannons , defence lasers — artillery which could melt fully armoured Marines , which could blow them away in scraps like chaff . |
| 9 | He maintained that Washington feared that the gradual shift of the states of the region into the political orbit of the Non-Aligned Movement could draw them away from the system of ‘ inter-American treaties of mutual assistance ’ . |
| 10 | The advertising market is tough at the moment , total sales fell in real terms in both August and September and no growth is expected in the run up to Christmas , and some contractors believe that combining sales staff could cost them dearly in the battle for market share . |
| 11 | Dot could hear them just inside the house . |
| 12 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |
| 13 | All the family grew more and more irritated as Frank interrupted every conversation they tried to have with Terry , saying , ‘ You 're not telling that right , Ted , ’ or ‘ I could tell them more about that , Ted ’ . |
| 14 | If government wanted such powers , it could obtain them only through Parliament ( Parliament itself has never sought to exercise executive powers ) and the granting of them could take place only after deliberation and approval by the triumvirate of monarch , Lords , and Commons . |
| 15 | I could place them anywhere within a sixty-degree angle by varying the direction in which I pulled the sapling over and down . |
| 16 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |