Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 2 | A few moments later she appeared again and told them they could go in . |
| 3 | ‘ They told me they could arrange an ‘ accident ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ They told me they could sack me , but I do n't care , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 5 | I duly contacted Memory Direct , who told me they could n't supply these modules , but very helpfully gave me Epson 's customer support line number . |
| 6 | " The Woodlands Incorporated people told me they could plant hardwoods , " Fairfax protested . |
| 7 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 8 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 9 | The estate in Bradford where people told us they could not get credit because it had a reputation for housing defaulters ( see Appendix II , section 5 ) is an example of a physical credit ghetto , and depth-interview respondents in Finsbury ( London ) told us that their experience suggested that ‘ it has a bad name for credit ’ . |
| 10 | The bank chose Acse because , while ‘ other companies told us they could provide us with an Electronic Data Interchange translator , Acse was the only one who said , ‘ EDI is not a problem of technology , but a problem of integrating it into your existing systems , ’ ’ Gilmont said . |
| 11 | As Moran encouraged them they could go without guilt . |
| 12 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 13 | The congers were ugly-looking brutes , some of them three feet or more in length ; Pierre warned me they could bite through a sea-boot . |
| 14 | Anyway , I dropped , I rang his office and then erm Alistare rang me on the mo I think , I think if Alistare rang me they could tell me that er if I did , or I , no I got the message |