Example sentences of "[vb past] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they entered they could hear someone playing a cello . |
| 2 | ‘ I met thousands of people who pretended they could teach me how to do it . |
| 3 | I doubted they could afford much more today , but the small dirty children seemed happy enough on their thirty by twenty yards of straw . |
| 4 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 12 | But when they descended by special lift from the fifth , nomenklatura floor , they found they could traverse only one passage . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Earlier in the decade ‘ propaganda ’ among a few chosen workers had been rejected in favour of mass agitation as revolutionaries found they could articulate the detailed grievances of workers in specific factories and print them in agitational leaflets . |
| 19 | In the 1960s , when bank credit was tight , companies found they could use the services of a broker to lend to one another . |
| 20 | So the analysts found they could n't use free association with children . |
| 21 | Well they found they could do it far better with a tractor and a mower . |
| 22 | The discovery was made at 11.30am after staff arrived at the pub and found they could not get in . |
| 23 | Customers taking bikes to the shop for repair or picking up new cycles found they could not park near the shop . |
| 24 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 25 | Either because those in power simply underestimated the potential for resistance or simply because they believed they could in the end over-ride such resistance , industrial companies in conjunction with waste disposal firms ( and often in collusion with state health regulatory agencies ) dumped indiscriminately and with disregard for human health and life . ’ |
| 26 | Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site , people believed they could do it again , and did . |
| 27 | Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters . |
| 28 | The Incas believed they could harness the power of Inti , the sun , to them and each temple had its hitching post , a small column compared to the huge masonry surrounding it , but sacred . |
| 29 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 30 | But the brothers believed they could do no wrong . |