Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | They say they could now lose thousands of pounds without expert advice on their crops . |
| 3 | She had done all the house out and got all the presents and everything , but then they says I could n't have him or see him . |
| 4 | Joseph Payne , an Alex Brown & Sons would let loose a huge supply of stock onto the market and fund managers would n't stand for it — a rather naive statement since the non-executive directors would be in breach of their fiduciary duty if they allowed IBM to pay a dividend they judged it could not afford . |
| 5 | I was just thinking that maybe at the beginning of the day people could , if she knows who is due she could actually write that in , and when they came she could just tick that that they 'd arrived . |
| 6 | ‘ There was a party came over from Prince 's , trollies and all , but as they paid we could hardly object . ’ |
| 7 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 8 | Sometimes we got to be down at Bullard 's brewery by six o clock in the morning with a load , because they 'd start loading the beer up at six o'clock ; and if you were n't in the yard afore they started you could n't get in at all . |
| 9 | They decided they could n't do much about the rape , but they dealt with the wife beating by publicly humiliating and parading the culprits ! |
| 10 | But the news leaked out and they decided they could n't wait . |
| 11 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 12 | But they felt they could n't do it . |
| 13 | Michael had tried to book Guildford , but they would only offer us one week as they felt we could n't guarantee an audience for longer . |
| 14 | I do n't think there were many people in debt because they knew they could n't afford to go into debt you know . |
| 15 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 16 | I would say conditions were a wee bit easier a wee bit you had a wee bit more freedom because they knew they could not replace anybody if they gave the sack . |
| 17 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 18 | They regarded the occupation of land as the essential base of family and community life , but at the same time , they knew they could only survive if they had wage-earning employment as well . |
| 19 | Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder , they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues . |
| 20 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 21 | They also promised to use their friends in the Salvation Army as supports at times when they thought they could not cope by themselves . |
| 22 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 23 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |
| 24 | They thought I could not understand French ; I can , my mother was French . |
| 25 | Only two weeks ago they complained they could not afford to fund the teachers ’ pay award . ’ |
| 26 | erm and they should comment this week about what extra bits they think they could perhaps cover . |
| 27 | They said they could just hear me did n't they Meryl ? |
| 28 | So Mericlean sent it away with his P forty five to have it changed and they said they could n't accept it that they 'd have to re-apply or something . |
| 29 | No , well he wa it was the council , they said they could n't afford it . |
| 30 | Indeed they said they could even help , and make the changes for the better . |