Example sentences of "they could [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 3 | It turned out to be so big that he invited people specially to help eat it , and then it proved so salty that they could manage only a little of it . |
| 4 | The house was n't visible from where they stood , in the cool beneath the branches , and even further along , where the path turned , following the contours of the shoreline , they could see only a small part of it , jutting up , white between the intense green of the surrounding trees . |
| 5 | They formed a group so that they could put forward a collective case with Ewan Veitch doing most of the research , Yuel McMurray , assisting . |
| 6 | They formed a group so that they could put forward a collective case with Ewan Veitch doing most of the research , Yuel McMurray , assisting . |
| 7 | These olives — their trunks warped , gouged , carbuncled , abrasive to the touch — seem indestructible , as if they could survive even a nuclear winter . |