Example sentences of "they could do [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 2 | In reality , however , the Russians ' ’ higher , culture was represented in the seventeenth and eighteenth century by soldiers ( men of service ) and colonial administrators out for personal gain , and by peasants , whose building-tools were of the simplest — the axe , gouge and spokeshave ( although they could do wonders with these ) . |
| 3 | They did n't even know I could sing , but they said they could do things to my voice . |
| 4 | But bodyboarders knew they could do things with waves boardwalkers could only dream of . |
| 5 | They could do things by thumb and come out within a thou . |
| 6 | Joe did n't see a great deal of his dad during the year , with his trips abroad and everything , so they used to reserve at least one day when they could do things together . ’ |
| 7 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 8 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |