Example sentences of "they could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 2 | The plight of the injured was an unenviable one ; several of them could not be moved . |
| 3 | The major innovations and discoveries of the 20th century such as transistors , penicillin or nuclear power could not have been predicted before their time nor do their stories have much in common except the the research which led to them could not have been directed towards their discovery . |
| 4 | People used to have an instinctive feeling that all that waste matter hanging around inside them could not be doing them any good . |
| 5 | Last night the atmosphere between them could not have been more different . |
| 6 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 7 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |
| 8 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 9 | Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub . |
| 10 | In Howard E. Perry & Co . Ltd. v. B.R.B. it was held that the defendants ' refusal to allow the plaintiffs to enter their premises to collect goods which belonged to them could not be justified by their fear of intensified industrial action . |
| 11 | I find they resemble grit and taste the same — even the health store from which I bought them could not enlighten me . |
| 12 | But the ideas and what lay behind them could not be as easily sorted and filed into place as those documents in the office where she had worked years ago . |
| 13 | The British Communists and the large group of supporters they had built around them could not sidestep the problem . |
| 14 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 15 | The two of them could even end up working together against Lachlan . |
| 16 | The others — none of them could even ride a donkey , only Nutty … but now they sit there , knees in , heels down , on the bit — ’ |
| 17 | Though they can not detain us here , an examination of them could well be a step towards dispelling them for ever . |
| 18 | The return of Tony Hanson to the team that lost in the last five seconds at Broxbourne could be the inspiration , but with Doncaster playing second placed Oldham and Plymouth at fourth placed Brixton , the two teams above them could well lose ground . |
| 19 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 20 | Then each one of them could n't help noticing that the others seemed to be walking faster and faster . |
| 21 | If , for example , we knew what animals with neocortices could do that species lacking them could n't do we would know something about the cortex without having to ablate it in a single animal . |
| 22 | I think if a museum gets to be talked about ‘ Oh , well , they 've sold this and they 've sold that ’ I for one would want to make very sure that whatever I gave them could n't be sold . |
| 23 | Some of them could n't afford it . |
| 24 | Some of them could n't afford i You had I think you had to put something in . |
| 25 | If you let somebody else get stuff on your book , and some of them could n't pay it , you know , you 've no means of paying it . |
| 26 | You could give it to them could n't you ? |
| 27 | The three black guys did n't get up or anything — I was pretty sure two of them could n't — they just nodded as Lloyd reeled off their names . |
| 28 | Could go on to the rugby and go with them could n't he ? |
| 29 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
| 30 | We can at least answer them could n't we . |