Example sentences of "could they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could they decide to punish me as cruelly as this ? |
| 2 | How could they cover the sensible , everyday clothes of Philip Doyle ? |
| 3 | For the French , thought the German commanders , circumstances must be so much worse , casualties so much higher ; how much more could they stand ? |
| 4 | Above all , she would have liked to ask , When could they meet again ? |
| 5 | How else could they achieve their objectives ? |
| 6 | ‘ What on earth could they achieve ? |
| 7 | Could they flood the market ? |
| 8 | How could they pretend it had n't happened ? |
| 9 | could they draw up a contract , saying that they would share ? |
| 10 | And he said that he 'd phoned them and said could they change it and he 'd finish at eleven then he can still start tomorrow night again at quarter to one . |
| 11 | How could they soar so high one minute , then plumb the depths ? |
| 12 | How could they sit around in a stupor for so long ? |
| 13 | How could they move ? |
| 14 | In no way could they hold back the French when the test came , and pomp and dignity increased as real ability diminished . |
| 15 | How could they tell ? |
| 16 | And , when a guard protests to Riddler that , ‘ without the temple , we are practically without our wits , ’ who would not recall Dorothy Parker 's question , on learning that Calvin Coolidge was dead : ‘ How could they tell ? ’ |
| 17 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 18 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 19 | Many viewers nevertheless asked : ‘ How could they tell ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ How could they choose this nothing man simply by a bit of finagling and jiggery-pokery behind the scenes . |
| 21 | How could they stop the warships from chasing them ? |
| 22 | If someone had tried to make it as boring as they could they 've succeeded , basically . ’ |
| 23 | But if subjects failed to recognize the stimulus in the Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) study ( as indicated by the occurrence of dishabituation ) , how could they show latent inhibition to that stimulus ? |
| 24 | Could they sack the shareholder ? i i if there 's a shareholder do they sack him ? |
| 25 | Where could they eat steak and chips , buy their favourite drink , or be entertained ? |
| 26 | What could they eat ? |
| 27 | ‘ They just knocked on the door and asked Cosmas could they light a slow fuse under the bed ? ’ |
| 28 | Could they detect the excitement he felt ? |
| 29 | Entrants to the School were to be no younger than six nor older than ten , nor could they stay without special consent beyond the age of fourteen . |
| 30 | If so , how could they stay motionless , at a constant distance from each other ? |