Example sentences of "and [vb past] [that] they could " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The walls were lined with layers of raincoats of a uniform dun , as though their colours had run together ; they went back years — some had even belonged to her father and were so stiff and cracked that they could have stood unsupported . |
| 2 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 3 | They were not thought particularly interesting , until , in 1952 , Herring and Galt chanced to bend some tin whiskers and noticed that they could be bent to a strain of about 2 per cent and still recover elastically . |
| 4 | They did not give their reasons , but Fr Morrow said that they had told him they had carefully studied the Law Lords ' decision to allow feeding tubes to be removed from Mr Bland and felt that they could not serve the summons . |
| 5 | During it , the workers had seen the managers run the station without their help and knew that they could again run it . |
| 6 | These he called ‘ stressors ’ and said that they could be physical , physiological , psychological or sociocultural . |
| 7 | She said to them , sometimes , but she 's a widow , she lives all alone , she has no one , she seems to expect it of me : and they sympathized all the more , and said that they could see how hard it must be for Clara to break away . |
| 8 | The interesting point is that , that I feel is , that this is , this , this , this all has a very heavy bearing on the regulatory system , because I think that really we 're now being financial services is a global village and you know whether somebody picks up a phone and di I think in fact did n't you have somebody gave evidence here and said that they could not investigate one of Maxwell 's transactions , because it had gone through the New York office . |
| 9 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |