Example sentences of "could [vb infin] them [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the trees grew , he had told Miss Lockwood , she could thin them and sell the thinnings as Christmas trees in the right season . |
| 2 | They could n't get back to the bank without treading on shifting , clutching , cloying marsh , which could trap them and draw them right down ; and if they stayed in the car , sooner or later they would go under with it . |
| 3 | you could ring them and give them |
| 4 | They could see them and navigate by them , if they have n't got the sun or the stars , yeah , yeah , we 've lost all that of course , as we got what we called civilised , we 've lost all those old skills . |
| 5 | So Angus got up on to the rock and held his fist high and told young McCulloch to stand the hostages on a knoll where everyone could see them and called out the oath above the drone of the pipe : ‘ We do swear — never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — of this oppressive Act . |
| 6 | I mean I suppose I could contact them and say yeah I 'll take that . |
| 7 | Oh , too bad , she decided to cook some new potatoes and they could take them or leave them . |
| 8 | Secondly it had demonstrated that the clergy were well nigh powerless against royal tax demands : if they would not make a grant , the king could outlaw them and raise the money by fines , or he could simply seize their temporalities . |
| 9 | Now he must either spend countless valuable minutes retrieving the escaped marbles , or he could ignore them and leave Vic to reach his own conclusions . |
| 10 | Soon all three of them were reeling out and reeling in , pouncing on the fish as soon as they could reach them and pulling the hooks from their mouths . |
| 11 | She did not throw clothes away if she could mend them or alter them to make them more fashionable . |
| 12 | I thought we could open them and have one with |