Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 2 | If she can get that out of here they could find out what 's wrong with her , but it wo n't come . |
| 3 | Turbosoft 's proprietors left their trading premises and home address on 14 February , leaving no indication of where they could be contacted . |
| 4 | A typical Feiffer couple , solemnly offering each other elaborate explanations of why they could not hit it off , are asking in their thought balloons why the other partner ca n't , for Pete 's sake , make a straight pass . |
| 5 | Adults , who have been able to read and spell for years , tend to forget what it was like when they could n't unless they have recently learnt a foreign language . |
| 6 | Now they were in midstream they could see the new bridge more clearly . |
| 7 | From here they could see a light from an inner window of the gatehouse . |
| 8 | From here they could control both river valleys , and deny Douglas his passage home by either . |
| 9 | The firemen 's department was filled with men from inland towns or anywhere from whence they could be obtained . |
| 10 | During the civil war , Palestinian guerrillas moved into the far more impressive fortress of Beaufort on the heights above the Litani River , from where they could gaze deep into Israel — or into Palestine as they would insist — and shell the Lebanese Christian villages in between . |
| 11 | The British forces were instructed to move only into key areas from where they could carry out their task of rescuing POWs . |
| 12 | Other people had to get their water from where they could , and at their own expense . |
| 13 | Instead , they had taken up position in one of the shops opposite where they were concealed by heavy wooden boarding and from where they could see directly into Mordecai 's shop . |
| 14 | But while it proposed interim restrictions on the consumption of HCFCs — used for making foam insulation — it stepped back from proposing to outlaw their production in the EC , from where they could still be exported to developing countries as a substitute to the much more harmful CFCs ( chlorofluorocarbons ) in refrigerators and air conditioners . |
| 15 | But Jekub 's cab was smaller , and people had to pack themselves in where they could . |
| 16 | The following day , Sunday 10 March , Action Committee members and friends started to forage for office furnishings and equipment from anywhere they could get them . |
| 17 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 18 | Anger flared , for surely they could have dressed the poor thing better . |
| 19 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 20 | In the second session they reflected on how they could be a ‘ John the Baptist ’ for those of their own age group within the diocese and also in their parish . |
| 21 | He had n't given much thought to how they could get the Thing into space . |
| 22 | Overall , however , students had a strong sense of duty to help China develop into a powerful , modern country , but they were uncertain as to how they could contribute given the constraints placed on them . |
| 23 | The Futurists , on the other hand , were men who started from violent ideological principles of their own but looked to Cubism for guidance as to how they could best express themselves . |
| 24 | Other planned savings were attacked because they were bereft of any specific proposals as to how they could be achieved ( such as the planned reduction of $1,500 million in farm subsidies ) , or were derived merely from a change of financial practices . |
| 25 | There were considered theological reasons , based on what was believed to be the case about the biological relationship of woman and man , as to why they could not be . |
| 26 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
| 27 | He then followed Duncan through the small terminal to where they could look out of the window at the tarmac ramp , on to the military side , where Duncan had seen the transporter . |
| 28 | You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see . |
| 29 | Hamish moved one arm up to indicate they should move down the corridor to where they could see the exciting zinc-silicoborates . |
| 30 | And then people used to er maybe wedding rings or sovereign used to pawn that and then they used to either they could n't afford to get it out , to , to redeem it so er the pawnbroker would sell it then , after a time . |