Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] they could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But provoking discussion among the trainees of some straightforward opening questions may reassure them that they could cope themselves , at least initially , with Sheila . |
| 2 | In 864 a royal assembly at Pîtres near Rouen dealt with the problem ( without indicating how widespread it was ) of migrant wage-workers in vineyards : clearly some landlords were short of labour at least at harvest-time , and to persuade such migrants to return to their original farms were willing to reassure them that they could keep their earnings . |
| 3 | The overseers of the poor could board out orphans , and then apprentice them until they could earn their own living . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , one would exhort those workers who are conscious of the problems for their residents and would help them if they could to do their best — within the law and within the limits of their own conscience — to mend the situation in their own particular place of work if mending is needed there . |
| 5 | It was terrifying to think that someone could feel such hatred towards you that they could do something like this . |
| 6 | Early on , she had learned one thing : if the poor saw you prospering they did n't deal with you if they could help it , their idea being they were n't going to give you a hand . |
| 7 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 8 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 9 | People disconcerted him because they could surprise him . |
| 10 | His teaching was so authoritative that the people followed him because they could see it was different from their normal diet of religious half-truths . |
| 11 | Many of the materials used were brought by the Israelites from Egypt ( 11:2–3 ) and willingly given , so that God 's tent might be as worthy of him as they could make it . |
| 12 | The Cotton Twist Company rarely sacked anyone if they could wear them out first . |
| 13 | And nobody would pay anything to anyone unless they could get it back somehow . |
| 14 | Armies would leave Lebanon this way in the future , firing into its hinterland to persuade themselves that they could abuse their tormentors to the end . |
| 15 | Encouraged by management theorists , big firms convinced themselves that they could apply their existing pool of manufacturing and management experience to any business . |
| 16 | The British did not want to act themselves if they could avoid it . |
| 17 | And of course there were still a few who would never have dreamt of asking themselves whether they could afford anything , with the attitude to money of an Algernon Moncrieff . |