Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] could [vb infin] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advisers will concentrate on how people can make the most of their skills and abilities , and how retraining or travel could provide them with employment . |
| 2 | Detectives also stressed that Lisa could contact them in confidence , without her whereabouts being passed on , if she wished . |
| 3 | There was the weighted velvet curtain that had once hung in the Star Theatre , now fixed to a huge rod with rings so large that Frankie could slip them over his arms like bangles . |
| 4 | When he reported for the necessary swearing and documentation , the local recruiting officer and his staff were understandably disappointed that Harold could tell them nothing about what his duties were to be . |
| 5 | The plates in these volumes were hand-coloured , and the original ones , coloured by Swainson and annotated by him so that colourists could get them right , have recently come to light and are at the Linnean Society , where his correspondence is also . |
| 6 | I I 've I 've been trying to see the 's about it and about getting copies of some of his poems so that people could see them you know . |
| 7 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 8 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 9 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 10 | It 's easy to look at these young hooligans on the street , as they are perceived by so many , without understanding why they are like it , and I think it would help everyone to understand , and maybe we could have some action to work towards supplying the need for these youngsters , because I belief if something could be done for them when they 're sixteen and just starting out on this erm sort of sub-culture life that they get into so quickly , if people could give them maximum help at this stage then they could grow into being responsible erm satisfied adults . |
| 11 | And of course , quotations of APR by individual traders would be very much more valuable if people could set them against a background of what is typical than if they stood alone , in isolation . |
| 12 | Victory for the Cherry and Whites could take them clear at the top of the Courage League , if Orrell and Leicester come unstuck . |
| 13 | They left soon after the birth , and Ariel could tell they were glad to . |
| 14 | Thousands of people have been practicing step aerobics , but over-enthusiasm could leave them flat on their backs . |
| 15 | Pleasure boats , but people could use them for just getting around anywhere ? |
| 16 | The words were out before Isabel could stop them , despair and bitterness giving them a stark finality that was absolute . |
| 17 | But before Molly could answer they all looked out as a car breasted the top of the small hill and lit them as brightly as actors on a stage . |
| 18 | Elaborate funerary rites , strenuously promoted by the emergent trade of the undertakers , ensured that the social pretensions of the middle-class would extend as far into the next world as money could take them . |
| 19 | He was always very protective and gentlemanly towards Tom 's mother , but as long as Tom could remember they had slept in separate bedrooms . |
| 20 | As far as Henry could remember they gave advice over the phone . |