Example sentences of "they could [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who backed Docklands Express and Brown Windsor in last Saturday 's Grand National can attest to that : they backed their opinion with real cash — but for all their money , they could n't make either horse win . |
| 2 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 3 | For the stations , railway stations because they could n't get any coal do you see . |
| 4 | They ran themselves into the ground , ran Chesterfield off the pitch , but they could n't get another goal . |
| 5 | Anthony Bowen , 21 , was bound and gagged after the raiders said they would kill him after they could n't find any money . |
| 6 | They could n't catch this stallion : it was in a loose box and it got on top of the chap who 'd been leading it . |
| 7 | One frog croaked , and then another , and then they could n't hear each other speak . |
| 8 | Later , my mother told me they had to lip read : they could n't hear each other speak for the noise of the looms . |
| 9 | They could n't hear each other . |
| 10 | They could n't hear any speech . |
| 11 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |
| 12 | They could not secure enough cash quickly and despite several last ditch attempts , went into receivership . |
| 13 | They could not make more money from selling books . |
| 14 | Malta were unfortunate to lose 2-1 to Italy last December , but , with three defenders suspended this time , they could not repeat that performance . |
| 15 | However , if their efforts were crowned with success in the form of wealth , they could not spend this profit on worldly goods and comforts , since their religion forbade this . |
| 16 | Ceauşescu agreed to reverse the pay cuts that the men in effect faced because they could not cut enough coal to meet the Five Year Plan 's targets . |
| 17 | About one-third of the delegates ( including two of the by then three New Forum delegates to the round table talks ) declared , however , that they could not support this aspect of the programme . |
| 18 | Once they had established that all men were equal before God and that all men were theoretically capable of finding out , for themselves , what God demanded of them , they could not confine that principle to the religious sphere , no matter how much they may have wanted to . |
| 19 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 20 | The Poles found that they could not impose any kind of law and order until they knew the exact borders they had been given , and as each day passed they became more and more desperate for a final decision . |
| 21 | In the end , the WICBC 's attitude that they could not accept any individual who did not uphold their tradition of sportsmanship prevailed , and Gilchrist played no more Tests . |
| 22 | The French settlements along the river St. Lawrence had no such attractions ; the peasant farmers who settled along the river were probably better off than if they had stayed at home , but they could not produce enough revenue to support the fairly lavish military , civil , and ecclesiastical establishment that had been set up there as well . |
| 23 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |
| 24 | There may be cases where all the fault lies on the side of the head , and indeed in the earliest days of financial delegation many governors were said to have resigned because they could not find enough time to master the intricate responsibilities of new government and because a path through those intricacies had not been mapped by the head . |
| 25 | Not only do children live in separate houses , they often move many miles from their parents in order to follow work or careers , and the mutual support they could formerly give each other has been accordingly diminished . |
| 26 | They could thus prevent any group of workers going off and setting up their own workshop in competition to the merchant and capitalist class . |
| 27 | When the two sides had carefully sounded each other out , and all parties had ordered two rounds of drinks , they had what the agent called ‘ a very in-depth substantive discussion about very sensitive material ’ , which grew louder and louder as the band did ; in the end they could scarcely hear each other when they leaned across the table and shouted . |
| 28 | When a Russian sub surfaced it would be paint-bombed by US helicopters : ‘ From the colours they could then track each submarine on their satellites . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps they could now get each episode of Eldorado down to that length . |
| 30 | The Conservatives faced strong opposition within their own ranks to any major changes in boundaries : they could only contain this opposition by their readiness to accept detailed amendments throughout the process . |