Example sentences of "[noun sg] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even in their religion they could not keep together … |
| 2 | Christ , if they took speed they could be high six hours . |
| 3 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 4 | Look out for the splatter ( a knuckle-cracking heavy who uses more force than a bouncer ) , pay a quick visit to heaven and hell , and as for Santa 's in-store ‘ grotty ’ … it 's tacky , vulgar , and full of overpriced garbage they could n't sell during the year ! |
| 5 | I suppose they felt that the viewing public needed to see a nice little clump of easily identified people , which on first glance they could decide whether they liked or not . |
| 6 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |
| 7 | Unfortunately as the blocks reached the wall at either side they could not ride on or off at the ends . |
| 8 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 9 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 10 | As he departed Baldersdale he was heard to announce with some emphasis that if his superiors were so anxious to catch the phantom poachers of Baldersdale , in future they could ( expletive deleted ) well do it themselves . |
| 11 | Although there are now more helpers at the club they could still do with more . |
| 12 | Although there are now more helpers at the club they could still do with more . |
| 13 | If they did n't pay the rent they could be turned out of the house and have to sleep in a ditch . |
| 14 | I do n't know where this Doctor had this idea from but I do n't know how many years ago , but I remember I had my Co-op news every week and , and he said that he could see us going a full circle and I 'm just wondering when he 's gon if I 'll be alive when it comes round again because I , I do n't think that these big mass stores erm as I say they 're all right you see , people with plenty of money with a car they could fill the freezer up . |
| 15 | I wanted them to have a programme they could say they watched simply because they liked and enjoyed it . ’ |
| 16 | Boredom with politics was a state of mind they could only comprehend intellectually . |
| 17 | Now the workers whose complaints started the probe fear they could lose their jobs . |
| 18 | Now the workers who brought the matter to light fear they could lose their jobs . |
| 19 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 20 | Under such uncertainty they could be involved , he declared , in protracted litigation . |
| 21 | Every surface that might have had a fingerprint was wiped , every trace they could think of expunged . |
| 22 | Noreen felt much the same so it was with great relief that for the New York engagement they could at least travel in from Queen 's each day and sleep in their own beds at night . |
| 23 | Signs of change had been evident within various protest movements , like the Teetotallers , from the 1850s when they realized that without state action they could not achieve their goals . |
| 24 | Others who had been in contact with the maid also sickened and died , so the local residents determined to take what action they could to prevent it spreading . |
| 25 | But the sellers were not normally asking the maximum wage which the traffic would bear and offering in return the minimum quantity of labour they could get away with . |
| 26 | In retailing , " seasons " were fairly short , the most important covering the month or two before Christmas and the " sales " period immediately afterwards ; in the holidays industry they could be very much longer , covering the entire period from late Spring to early Autumn . |
| 27 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 28 | Raynor made a warning movement , but the creature was before him , and in the uncertain light they could see the gleam of moonlight on bare sinewy thighs , which quivered with strength and intent to spring … |
| 29 | In the evil , glowing red light they could see that the walls were not of brick or timber or of anything that walls were normally made of . |
| 30 | Asked to name sources of credit out of the blue , people might well simply leave out or forget about some sources which in practice they could use , if they were offered that type of credit when they were buying . |