Example sentences of "either [prep] them could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contact was more than either of them could bear , and it was n't to do with the heat . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The slightest move by either of them could result in the encounter of a foot or , worse still , the brushing of knees . |
| 4 | sometimes come to Glasgow and either of them could go up to Stirling |
| 5 | There was no way either of them could have worked out what was going on . |
| 6 | Before either of them could say a word , he turned and began to speak as though they had asked him a question . |
| 7 | Why , thought Joe , should Blackbeard think either of them could read Russian ? |