Example sentences of "[verb] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | pity they could nt do that vs Scum … maybe Leeeee Sharpeeeee took robins aside for a quick trip before the match ? ? |
| 2 | Pity they could n't actually have joined us because I was last there on a Monday night and my four friends and I swelled the numbers beyond double figures . |
| 3 | The greater part of the debate on part-time day continuation schools centred around what it was claimed they could achieve . |
| 4 | As they entered they could hear someone playing a cello . |
| 5 | The forecasts for the rest of the year suggest they could level out slightly higher at 5.4 p.c. with companies in the south budgeting for awards of 5.7 p.c . |
| 6 | These chambers all have the feature that they are far , far larger inside than their external dimensions suggest they could be . |
| 7 | Moving from gardening to a musical metaphor , the poetic , sensuous qualities of her paintings suggest they could be experienced , like percussion instruments , through vibrations on the skin or in the bones . |
| 8 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 9 | What they did not know they could imagine . |
| 10 | ‘ I met thousands of people who pretended they could teach me how to do it . |
| 11 | ‘ More girls are now attracted to the sport as they realise they could have a career in golf , ’ she stated . |
| 12 | I doubted they could afford much more today , but the small dirty children seemed happy enough on their thirty by twenty yards of straw . |
| 13 | Furthermore W. 's foster parents indicated at about this time that if W. were discharged they could not continue to offer her a home . |
| 14 | Other readers , trying to buy houses , might be glad to find they could afford them . |
| 15 | The concert was a sell out , but younger fans , some with their parents , were disappointed to find they could n't get in because they were under sixteen . |
| 16 | — The question of job swaps was not clear in Tim 's paper — for example for Area Secretaries it meant that they wanted to job swap they could do so by moving region |
| 17 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 18 | Being asked to write stories that would distinguish an idiosyncratic , individualistic and , in some ways , rather odd group of people from the militaristic , regimented and brutal régime they were fighting against , was a challenge to which many found they could rise . |
| 19 | They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further . |
| 20 | It is just as likely that some viruses evolved from more complex organisms — that they are cell fragments which found they could earn a perfectly good living simply by sponging off others . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They had no church affiliation : some were hurt , others were strong , but they all found they could commit themselves heart and soul to what we were doing . |
| 24 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 25 | But when they descended by special lift from the fifth , nomenklatura floor , they found they could traverse only one passage . |
| 26 | In the mid-seventies , porn magazine publishers , notably the arriviste David Sullivan , found they could get away with far more explicit pictures of women than before . |
| 27 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 28 | Students of literature , traditionally resentful as they often are to be told they might be engaged in anything severely useful , found they could sell their talents abroad as teachers , and had to tolerate the uncomfortably realistic view that the nation might recover through the teaching of English some small part of the wealth it had lost on technical adventures like building and running Concorde . |
| 29 | The three found they could speed up the development of the 601 chip by combining work already under way at IBM with Motorola chip technology , and early next year , IBM , Apple and Motorola will announce the PowerOpen Association to rally support for the chip , which has so far won the backing only of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Thomson-CSF SA . |
| 30 | But though they were excellent makers of models to other people 's plans and designs I quickly found they could only work well if they were given very detailed constructional drawings and plans . |