Example sentences of "could [vb infin] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but even then we could have consignment stock here in effect cos they 're only forty minutes away , we could throw 'em in the back of the car and have 'em delivered . |
| 2 | The treatment can offset some effects of menopause , including brittle bone disease — osteoporosis — but the study reveals that the wrong kind of HRT could expose them to the risk of womb cancer . |
| 3 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 4 | Home Office officials are keen to watch the progress of these schemes and in future could include them as a qualification for senior police posts . |
| 5 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 6 | We could hang them on the walls . |
| 7 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 8 | Zoshchenko could caricature them in the 1920s , but by the 1930s it became too dangerous to ridicule what had solidified into a standardized bureaucratic mode of oppression . |
| 9 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 10 | In the face of such evidence it was a little difficult for at least some of the non-poor to accept that such conditions should continue and that free enterprise could bring them to an end largely unassisted . |
| 11 | The women 's group 's orientation was towards action : ‘ There was no way we could beat them in the courts . |
| 12 | They may also need professional help and their family doctor , church minister , head teacher or social worker , could refer them to a psychologist , psychotherapist , psychiatrist or counsellor from a specialist organization . |
| 13 | But it could land them with a court bill of up to £200 if they 're stopped by the police . |
| 14 | Now they will be scared rigid of stepping up and saying anything which could land them on the same mat upon which Lamb was so unfairly punished at Lord 's yesterday . |
| 15 | THIEVES stole drugs from a doctor 's surgery and took them to a Middlesbrough man who could identify them with a handbook , a court heard . |
| 16 | The trust said prices would be about two-thirds of market value and those who could not afford to buy could rent them through a housing association . |
| 17 | ‘ You could watch them from the window , ’ he says . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , I could do them on the train to the City some morning every week . ’ |
| 19 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 20 | He could feel them at the small of his back , feel the scratch of the lavender garland which she still held . |
| 21 | ‘ I could see them at the hotel . |
| 22 | You could see them in the bull-neck , in the big shoulders , in the thick arms , in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs . |
| 23 | The tears were streaming down his face ; I could see them in the light from my room . |
| 24 | Jed could see them from the car , drinking beers and swapping jokes . |
| 25 | ‘ I could see them from the window in that place . |
| 26 | You could use them as a decorative device on invitations , or as part of the design on your personal writing paper . |
| 27 | As in war , you could use them as a screen behind which your knights could withdraw and wait until they were ready to charge . |
| 28 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |
| 29 | Groups of teachers could use them as the basis of informal discussion groups . |
| 30 | ‘ I could store them in the loft for you instead . ’ |