Example sentences of "could [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were able to request anything they wanted from their administrative colleagues which they felt could aid them on any given mission . |
| 2 | He observed that here there was no need to grow trees from seed ; one could buy them in various sizes , ‘ cultivated and clipped ’ at a moderate price on account of many competitive tradesmen . |
| 3 | I could predict them with reasonable assurance in each case , except Addy . |
| 4 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 5 | Banks prefer to lend short-term because their borrowing ( at least from depositors ) is short-term and changes in interest rates could lock them into long-term loans that were uneconomical . |
| 6 | On the first day I doubt whether you could feel them at all ! |
| 7 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 8 | So , whether you 're looking for an alternative wastepaper bin , a planter or even kitchen storage , with prices starting at £18 you could use them for all these things and more |
| 9 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe we could suspend them from this bit in the middle with a length of thread , ’ Norris grunted , sticking his head almost right inside the appliance . |
| 11 | The upshot , however , was that the British could buy the latest mark of Polaris missile without warheads , which they would provide themselves , and could fit them into five British-built nuclear submarine hulls . |
| 12 | How could gas companies give any guarantees to gas suppliers , especially on gas volume , if their customers could by-pass them at any time ? |
| 13 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 14 | It 's like all good things to come , I do n't like to count my chickens , so I 'd rather not , not the little memorandums say , oh you 've got another X million , if only we could take them in this year . |
| 15 | The local team 's reply to England 's 334 for 4 was a not unimpressive 221 for 3 , with a trio of schoolboy prodigies ( 'We could produce them like this on better pitches , ’ Stewart said ) in their line-up . |
| 16 | It was implied that working part-time could disabuse them of naive and mistaken ideas about modern Chinese society . |
| 17 | They would have no direct control over such institutions except that they could pay them for particular services . |
| 18 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 19 | With an effort , she drove from her mind the thought of the return journey , filling it instead with the experience of the moment , absorbing the sights , the impressions and sensations , storing them in her brain , wishing she had a notebook with her so that she could record them in all their vividness and immediacy . |
| 20 | If two pairs { x , y } and { z , w } are the same distance apart , then the sorter could put them in either order . |
| 21 | We could equip them with two-way radios , but they would be confiscated at road checks . |
| 22 | Yet , of course , electric heating remained attractive to consumers ( most of whom by then had fires or , if the Boards refused to sell them , could obtain them from other shops ) . |
| 23 | A member of staff at the centre , who asked not to be named , said : ‘ If there were another six beds here we could fill them without any help from outside . ’ |
| 24 | One can not prove in the same way that senior bureaucrats do not implement effective conservation because there is no extra financial inducement and it could involve them in embarrassing political contradictions . |
| 25 | Of those questioned , 45% thought that experienced business managers could help them with future strategic decisions . |
| 26 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 27 | Microtympanometry , a sensitive method of diagnosing effusions of the middle ear , could help them in this . |
| 28 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 29 | He 'd be lucky if he could find them at all under that mess . |
| 30 | It also means that the feral dogs are acquiring genetic material that could turn them into dangerous carnivores in grand style . |