Example sentences of "they could [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | It was fortunate that the weather was good and they could sleep in the open , but that did not solve the immediate problem of how they were to be fed . |
| 5 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 6 | It is chiefly remembered by the SAS because they could swim in ‘ Cleopatra 's Pool ’ , a large basin supplied by a spring . |
| 7 | Or , for half the time but twice the luxury , they could go in June with Airtours for seven nights to the Hotel Magaluf near Palma in Mallorca , via Stansted , for £976 . |
| 8 | As we have a school of excellence for soccer , why not a school for whingers where they could go in an effort to be cured ? |
| 9 | The first settlers did it all for themselves , sharing the camaraderie of the market café where they could go in their filthy work clothes and get help and advice from the other settlers . |
| 10 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 11 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 12 | Referring in particular to by-passes , MacGregor said that they could result in " huge improvements " to the environment of villages and towns , and added : " There are some who argue that the expansion of the road network will be devastating for the environment . |
| 13 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 14 | The rest of him , though , ran true to form : an old school blazer , jeans so faded they could appear in a Levi ad any day now , and what appeared to be a genuine official Born To Run tour T-shirt . |
| 15 | Stevenson himself thought that it was only in virtue of a descriptive meaning , which ethical sentences typically had as well as their emotive meaning , that they could function in this sort of context . |
| 16 | The police had been round to have a supportive chat ; there was nothing else that they could do in the circumstances . |
| 17 | Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time … |
| 18 | They had staff they could leave in charge last year . |
| 19 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 20 | With a bag of air inside them , they could float in the water without perpetually labouring their tails . |
| 21 | They navigated by the , by the ley lines , that 's why you find monuments built up on hills so they could stand in the middle of the of nowhere and they could see a , they could either feel it through their feet |
| 22 | Northumberland found the strength of British Columbia rather more than they could handle in their final game at Langley , a community on the outskirts of Vancouver . |
| 23 | Most appreciated this and said that , provided the timing and subject of the course were right , they could fit in a 6 hour course . |
| 24 | But a 25th minute penalty from Fry was all they could manage in scoring terms . |
| 25 | While , understandably , this mild recommendation was all they could make in the circumstances , there is no disguising the fact that , for the next five years at least , non-advanced further education in Wales badly needs the infusion of more resources . |
| 26 | It shows they could exist in WARM as well as COLD climates . |
| 27 | They could engage in foreign trade , and retain 50 per cent of export earnings in foreign currency , but would require Ministry of Foreign Trade approval if they sought foreign capital investment . |
| 28 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 29 | The prospect of remaining unmarried was undoubtedly materially harsher for working class women , because the average wage they could command in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries was below subsistence level . |
| 30 | A few minutes later ‘ David ’ said that they would go to the bedroom where they could talk in privacy . |