Example sentences of "they could [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 2 | Although they own over five hundred goats the price of fleeces fell so low on the market they could n't afford to sell them . |
| 3 | And then people used to er maybe wedding rings or sovereign used to pawn that and then they used to either they could n't afford to get it out , to , to redeem it so er the pawnbroker would sell it then , after a time . |
| 4 | And er but of course they could n't afford to buy me a piano to learn on so |
| 5 | They could n't have done it too promptly or else she and the Archdeacon would have met them after their ill-fated call on the Dersinghams . |
| 6 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 7 | They could n't have given it |
| 8 | they could n't have got him , you 'll get him , you 'll get him . |
| 9 | Furthermore W. 's foster parents indicated at about this time that if W. were discharged they could not continue to offer her a home . |
| 10 | However , they could not guarantee to replace it if it were damaged or vandalised . |
| 11 | They could not have raped her , or murdered her , or beaten her . |
| 12 | They could not afford to let it fall apart . |
| 13 | And they would not have expelled her ; they wanted her , and they could not afford to expel her . |
| 14 | The Church knew what was going on and they could easily have stopped it . |
| 15 | They could even have suspected me had they not found the two sets of footprints in the soft snow right up to the very hedge where Martin was hiding . |
| 16 | Christ , they could just have topped me . |
| 17 | erm we have developed over in the university , in the arts area especially , for arts undergraduates who do n't have mathematical or scientific training , ways of giving them erm training in computer programming , and they come out really both full of fun about it and with a lot more confidence than they could possibly have imagined they would have when they began . |
| 18 | One carries a rope and he frets about its purpose , whether it 's required , where they could possibly have used it . |