Example sentences of "they could [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original band of brothers in the primal horde were excluded from sexual intercourse with any women by their father , and they formed a group , based on homosexual feelings , to perform the act that no one of them could do as a sole individual , namely , to kill their father . |
| 2 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 3 | The trust said the prices would generally amount to about two-thirds of their market value and those who could not afford to buy them could rent through a housing association . |
| 4 | The slightest move by either of them could result in the encounter of a foot or , worse still , the brushing of knees . |
| 5 | Either one of them could walk through the door into the hall and end this angry and unhappy meeting . |
| 6 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |
| 7 | The aunts would reply indignantly that they only wanted to help , whereupon Addy would shout from the kitchen that if either of them could cook worth a damn perhaps they could be something other than a bloody nuisance . |
| 8 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 9 | It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy . |
| 10 | It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy . |
| 11 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 12 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 13 | A It is unfortunate that you have used only ‘ common ’ names , as some of them could apply to a number of species . |
| 14 | They had no idea that the woman they escorted was far more lethal than ever they could hope to be . |
| 15 | While Mary Tudor lived , the Protestants in Scotland had never actually given up , but as long as England as well as France and Spain was Catholic , all they could hope for was survival ; and there was no point in preferring an English alliance to a French one . |
| 16 | She 'd hoped to be able to take him out , perhaps for a longish walk through the forest where they could hope for a glimpse of a deer , but at its heaviest the downpour would have called for wetsuits rather than waterproofs . |
| 17 | The best they could hope for today was a stay of execution -- but a short statement this evening confirmed that men would arrive in the autumn of 1994 . |
| 18 | it was touch and go for a time and when Leicester hit back with an equaliser from Whitlow a draw seemed the best they could hope for … |
| 19 | She would have to tell Andrew how little they could hope from Deer Forest , then or in future times . |
| 20 | Like Hannay , Chesterton would adapt quickly to the strangeness of his new environment , evolving into a pillar of strength on whom the audience knew they could depend in times of crisis . |
| 21 | They could range from spurs to church bells , woolpacks , shuttles , rainbows , millrinds or staples , to sea-shells . |
| 22 | She did not approve of amateurs , especially amateurs who thought they could step into the shoes of professional models . |
| 23 | These early settlers used to heat their cabins in winter with coal which they could gather from the mountain-sides , and this natural resource also came to the notice of entrepreneurs . |
| 24 | Mebbe they could dae wi' a night-woatchman or somethin' where you work . ’ |
| 25 | Czechoslovakia was the last place they could travel to without restrictions . |
| 26 | The inspector duly obliged , but when the couple tried to get off he barred them , explaining that on the cheapest ticket they could travel to Leeds and back — but not leave the train . |
| 27 | Elizabeth I gave business travel allowances to young , aspiring courtiers so that they could travel throughout Europe making important contacts useful to their careers and to their queen . |
| 28 | Too clever by half , they could encapsulate in a song-title what most bands could never express in a career — ‘ We Live As We Dream , Alone ’ , ‘ Capital ( It Fails Us Now ) ’ and ‘ To Hell With Poverty ’ with its neat rejoinder ‘ … let's get drunk on cheap wine ’ . |
| 29 | Too clever by half , they could encapsulate in a song-title what most bands could never express in a career — ‘ We Live As We Dream , Alone ’ , ‘ Capital ( It Fails Us Now ) ’ and ‘ To Hell With Poverty ’ with its neat rejoinder ‘ … let's get drunk on cheap wine ’ . |
| 30 | The I.L.P. provided James and his fellow colonials , Padmore and Jomo Kenyatta , with a forum in which they could expound upon their own individual ideas concerning nationhood . |