Example sentences of "mean they could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
| 2 | You mean they could 've , they could 've gone for the Soviet style collectivization ? |
| 3 | I mean they could give you a decent stand to put it in cos I hate those ones at Sainsbury 's . |
| 4 | I mean they could have rung yesterday that 's the trouble you see they 've got so many friends Good girl you fairly worked that bleeding money . |
| 5 | I mean they could have gone , look how long Aberech station , er platform is . |
| 6 | That meant they could leave the hotel by themselves . |
| 7 | However , they had an ulterior motive : perfume , particularly rose , was believed to quell the intoxicating effects of alcohol , which meant they could drink more ! |
| 8 | They were once so poverty-stricken they were known through the valley of the Tees as people who ‘ christened calves , hoppled lops and knee-banded spiders ’ That meant they could afford so few cattle that each one had a name ( a tradition perpetuated by Hannah. ) , and lops ( lice ) and spiders had their legs tied together to prevent them running away |
| 9 | The landlord was glad to leave preparing the room to Auntie Hetty and Philippa , and it meant they could pop in and out during the week bringing now the cake stand , now extra vases for flowers . |
| 10 | Selling mostly proprietary technology to a niche market meant they could charge high prices : on average , gross profit margins in the workstation business have been 15–20% higher than those in the PC industry . |
| 11 | The aim , after all , was not to arrest the man but to follow him and see if by that means they could uncover the line which ran back from Mordecai 's shop to the ultimate suppliers of Osman 's money . |
| 12 | Jeanette Howse of the Didcot Railway Centre explains that Kenneth 's popularity means they could have invited a thousand guests . |
| 13 | The small size of the formulations compared to red blood cells means they could penetrate solid tumours , making them more susceptible to chemotherapy and radiotherapy , and they could reach inaccessible parts of the heart during surgery . |