Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er in relation to King Street er car park , there are there are complications in relation to er the usage of the car parking spaces erm and the health centre and on street car parking erm and we are going to do er further work in surveying the usage of those spaces and how we could perhaps better allocate them to ensure that there are erm spaces available for people who need to get to the surgery and the subcommittee will be reporting back to the council . |
| 2 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 3 | She tried to look down at her feet , and could only just see them . |
| 4 | There was no need to run , for he knew they would be following the horses , and on the highway he could not easily lose them . |
| 5 | Secondly , for historical reasons we did not hold records of National Insurance numbers on the payroll file ( and could not easily add them ) . |
| 6 | The crows attacked and her movements were strangely slow and disorientated as if she could not quite see them , or make her wings and talons move as she intended . |
| 7 | However , the handover of powers brought the institutions that had evolved from the old workhouses into the hands of authorities that could more effectively bring them up to date . |
| 8 | Buses could more effectively operate them when integrated with the rest of the bus network , which would also enhance its profitability . |
| 9 | Mary and Reggie those householders , as Alice contemptuously thought of them — sitting upright in their marriage bed , examining Alice , knew that nothing could ever really threaten them . |
| 10 | I mean time of physiological difference and strength needs of their strength that they could just about fire a and he could n't even pull them back and so they you know , fine if you wan na go hunting use the boat |
| 11 | A lot of them , of course , were so secret that Mr Marr could n't even show them to me . |
| 12 | And she could n't do anything about Castelfonte , she could n't even get them to attempt making it profitable — she never understood about the land , that was n't in her blood . |
| 13 | She stabbed at the recorder controls , though her eyes were blurred with tears and she could n't even see them . |
| 14 | ‘ I said you could n't just give them tea and biscuits , ’ he says . |
| 15 | I could n't just have them standing at the back . |
| 16 | Opal Fruits and things like that I could of got them that but of course a great big bag of Minstrels , you could n't just let them rummage through that , so what I done I took a couple of handfuls out and put them in here |
| 17 | gee , grief , that 's six times as much , you 'd have to have something for brown stains would n't you , you could n't just use them er hand like , but , but is brown mind you but erm |
| 18 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |
| 19 | Feelings did n't stop because you told them to ; you could n't just turn them off . |
| 20 | But she could n't just desert them , either ; for several members of the cast this play of Josh Thayer 's was the first decent break they 'd had , and she knew from dressing-room conversations just how much personal and emotional investment they 'd made in its success . |
| 21 | So that they could n't easily get them out . |
| 22 | She hated to be made to think in this way ; but there were some things you had to think of with your mind , when you could n't straightforwardly see them with your hands , to deal with them then and there . |
| 23 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |
| 24 | Erm th the general idea is that I 'm actually responding to a request from last years ' student group so that the previous lecturer did pass on to me that the student group had been unhappy that there were too many texts referred to as they could n't necessarily get them from the library and they could n't afford to buy more than one text . |
| 25 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 26 | In the past I used to have a , a class on psycho- history , and I dropped it , and one of the reasons why I dropped it was , the lit a lot of the literary was very poor quality , for a start , and erm , people , er , students , er got that too , and I could n't really blame them . |
| 27 | Well the packets are broken , you could n't really give them as , as presents you know . |
| 28 | I could n't really see them losing three in a row . |
| 29 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 30 | United found it easy enough to open Wolves up , but they could n't quite finish them off . |