Example sentences of "they could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many directors continued in office long after they could hope to participate effectively . |
| 2 | While Mary Tudor lived , the Protestants in Scotland had never actually given up , but as long as England as well as France and Spain was Catholic , all they could hope for was survival ; and there was no point in preferring an English alliance to a French one . |
| 3 | Young people with little education but the right connections or boldness could make more money selling goods like watermelons on the street than they could hope to earn after graduation . |
| 4 | They could hope to learn later where Berowne had spent his last day on earth . |
| 5 | They had no idea that the woman they escorted was far more lethal than ever they could hope to be . |
| 6 | It was Vico , in his New Science ( 1725–44 ) , who gave at once a new confidence and a particular direction to social thought , in his argument that ‘ the world of civil society has certainly been made by men ’ and that this ‘ since men had made it they could hope to know ’ . |
| 7 | She 'd hoped to be able to take him out , perhaps for a longish walk through the forest where they could hope for a glimpse of a deer , but at its heaviest the downpour would have called for wetsuits rather than waterproofs . |
| 8 | She would have to tell Andrew how little they could hope from Deer Forest , then or in future times . |
| 9 | The best they could hope for today was a stay of execution -- but a short statement this evening confirmed that men would arrive in the autumn of 1994 . |
| 10 | it was touch and go for a time and when Leicester hit back with an equaliser from Whitlow a draw seemed the best they could hope for … |
| 11 | Thibaud V was held by John of Salisbury to be one of the most learned lawyers of his day ; Philip of Alsace was a man of rare competence ; other princes gathered around them their band of learned advisers , their counsellors on whose pronouncements they could depend . |
| 12 | Like Hannay , Chesterton would adapt quickly to the strangeness of his new environment , evolving into a pillar of strength on whom the audience knew they could depend in times of crisis . |
| 13 | They could range from spurs to church bells , woolpacks , shuttles , rainbows , millrinds or staples , to sea-shells . |
| 14 | Not like they were in the dreams he had had recently , where they could torment him without his being able to retaliate . |
| 15 | Someone shouted to him asking if they could step over to help . |
| 16 | She did not approve of amateurs , especially amateurs who thought they could step into the shoes of professional models . |
| 17 | The Americans led 54–41 at half-time and it always seemed they could step up a few gears when required . |
| 18 | Thus , given that there might come a time when forces were available for deployment in the Middle East , it made sense for American diplomats to encourage what friends and allies they could to hold the line in the interval . |
| 19 | Once , they could gather all they needed from orchards in Shropshire , Herefordshire and Worcestershire . |
| 20 | They could gather food with the beak-like premaxillae , manipulate it with the large tongue ( possession of which is suggested by the extensive hyoid bones in the throat ) and crop and slice it efficiently with the powerful jaws . |
| 21 | These early settlers used to heat their cabins in winter with coal which they could gather from the mountain-sides , and this natural resource also came to the notice of entrepreneurs . |
| 22 | He had 10 wickets under his belt , was searching for an 11th , and at 264 for 9 , New Zealand captain Martin Crowe knew if either he or last man Chris Pringle fell , the Test was lost ; but if they could gather four runs , the match would be saved , for even if they were out immediately afterwards there would be no time for England to begin a run-chase of any kind before the scheduled close of play at 5.30 . |
| 23 | Joyce and his wife went out into sunlit streets of Berlin on that Sunday afternoon to see what further news they could gather . |
| 24 | It is evident from this and other comments , several describing treachery , that he often thought little of the English resistance , and on at least one occasion he did it injustice , saying under 1001 that an immense levy from Somerset and Devon met the raiders at Pinhoe , but fled immediately battle was joined , whereas an independent entry in the A text reports that the English fought with such forces as they could gather , which gives a rather different impression . |
| 25 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 26 | Already under Clovis ( 481 – 511 ) they could boast a leader of considerable stature . |
| 27 | Darlington has 131 of the crime combatting schemes and some volunteers feared they could fold if the council did not come up with its share of the funding Durham County Council provides the other half . |
| 28 | Mebbe they could dae wi' a night-woatchman or somethin' where you work . ’ |
| 29 | Czechoslovakia was the last place they could travel to without restrictions . |
| 30 | At first the going was so firm that they could travel comfortably at 50 miles per hour , but then they had to head north and traverse what is known as the Grand Sea Erg . |