Example sentences of "[det] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this they could blame their own indiscipline as much as Llanelli 's eagerness to take advantage of it . |
| 2 | This would compel West Indians to produce more economically , and this they could only do by moving towards free labour and engaging the labourers ' personal material interests in their work . |
| 3 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 4 | If they 're all like this they could infect everything in the Domain . |
| 5 | From this they could create a map of the Viking world , using different symbols for settlement , raiding , trading activities , exploration , etc . |
| 6 | Without this they could not communicate with one another , if each claimed to take the first place " . |
| 7 | If you do n't know many yourself , ask the residents if they know some they could teach you . |
| 8 | They 'd taken pride in planning for every eventuality , but there was nothing much they could do when an oncoming driver had a heart attack at the wheel and steered straight into the path of their Rover saloon . |
| 9 | There was probably nothing much they could have done . |
| 10 | Er I think the difficulty was , there was n't much they could charge him with . |
| 11 | There was n't much they could do for Martinho . |
| 12 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 13 | It could do depending how much how much they could be delegated . |
| 14 | Erm , let's say you had a client who knew how much they could afford to spend , so what you were doing then was you 'd tell them how much life cover you could afford . |
| 15 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 16 | All they could imagine was that some new sort of tax was to be imposed on them . |
| 17 | All they could do was to look at her but no one could read Rose 's face and they turned back to their books . |
| 18 | All they could do now was to turn Moat Hall upside down in the forlorn hope something remained in the near-derelict place to hint at its erstwhile owner 's present refuge . |
| 19 | All they could hear was one of the spy planes . |
| 20 | Kathleen herself saw nothing at all they could , or should , try to do . |
| 21 | They talked about the difficulty of getting food in , when all they could find was Chinese takeaway ; about strange knocks at the door of the hotel room , and why the Iranians sometimes left unexpectedly , and who the hell they were really dealing with ; about North 's pressing need for aspirin ; and about getting the hostages out , for which the only foreseeable currency was arms . |
| 22 | It was made the more difficult because the Iranians were at one remove from the hostage-takers ; even at best , all they could promise was to lean on Hizbollah and ask for a favour . |
| 23 | People drank all they could , and I washed my hair in pink champagne . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That was all they could do . |
| 26 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 27 | As a positive measure for conservation in the LFAs all they could recommend were ‘ deficiency payments for farmers who lay aside areas for conservation … so long as the productivity of hill and upland farming is not unreasonably threatened ’ . |
| 28 | All they could do was plead for commonsense or , in desperation , threaten a stern lecture from Anna Essinger , a device which usually succeeded when all else had failed . |
| 29 | Almost immediately the safety glass shattered and all they could see were white chips . |
| 30 | All they could do |