Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 2 | ‘ Drawing 1-1 up there with a team of kids when you 've been spanked 5-0 four days earlier made them believe they could finish the job at home . ’ |
| 3 | They fear they could lay themselves open to prosecution for murder or manslaughter — or in some cases a civil action for damages — if they disconnect a feeding tube without court permission . |
| 4 | And they fear it could mean the end of traditional pubs . |
| 5 | I guess he 's just what Big Jack needs , a full-back who 'll try & get forward , and if they qualify we could see a few Leeds players in the USA even if without England and Scotland . |
| 6 | To put it another way : how did they think they could share their thoughts about the trick objects with another person ? |
| 7 | How did they think he could get more production from his work force if they allowed so little cash for its upkeep ? |
| 8 | While I was on bail and Stephen was still with foster parents , they promised I could have Stephen for Christmas . |
| 9 | As they entered they could hear someone playing a cello . |
| 10 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 11 | Well they found they could do it far better with a tractor and a mower . |
| 12 | They found they could switch on particular groups of atoms with a pulse of electricity and they stayed switched on for up to two days . |
| 13 | They found they could explain all the experimental data on neutral weak currents by assuming quantum mixing between the electromagnetic current and the neutral weak current . |
| 14 | But when they descended by special lift from the fifth , nomenklatura floor , they found they could traverse only one passage . |
| 15 | They say you could borrow the Walkman ? |
| 16 | They say it could lead to a melt-down more serious than that at Three Mile Island in 1979 . |
| 17 | They say it could cause difficulties , but are waiting to see whether the idea will come to fruition . |
| 18 | ‘ They say it could come any time — calling up . ’ |
| 19 | They say he could have a future when he 's finished his studies . " |
| 20 | ‘ More girls are now attracted to the sport as they realise they could have a career in golf , ’ she stated . |
| 21 | The number of women poets swelled through the century , not least because they learnt they could speak to one another in this way . |
| 22 | Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters . |
| 23 | If they liked you they believed they could teach you to do anything and by God ! you 'd do , it as well as anyone . |
| 24 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 25 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 26 | Well there 's a physical limit to how much we could produce in a an eight hour shift and all the slate makers were adamant that the figures he reckoned they could produce and what they reckoned they could produce you know they were totally different . |
| 27 | Even in an age where appearances are sometimes not all they seem we could have sworn that every one was — the naughty word seems inescapable — a woman . |
| 28 | Many women resist swapping jobs because they know they could do a job a lot better or quicker themselves , or because they are frightened of ‘ having a go ’ at traditional male jobs . |
| 29 | Musical clergy , on the other hand , may find it hard to accept standards of choice and performance which are lower than they believe they could achieve themselves . |
| 30 | They believe it could reduce the risk of AIDS being spread through contaminated blood . |