Example sentences of "[adj] and they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 2 | This was because with the older gliders like the T21 or T31 , the wings were very high and they could not be held securely except by keeping one wing low . |
| 3 | Their arms were tied with rope , but their legs were free and they could walk . |
| 4 | When they arrived at her close he took her inside , along past the stairs to where it was dark and they could n't be seen by the rest of the close . |
| 5 | If James was right and they could count on contingents from every part of the strath , they would be a force indeed — a mass big enough to frighten the most assured gentleman . |
| 6 | Their own earnings were fabulous and they could make money for their followers as well . |
| 7 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 8 | It 's too far and much too costly and they could n't possibly cover their expenses . |
| 9 | It was fortunate that the weather was good and they could sleep in the open , but that did not solve the immediate problem of how they were to be fed . |
| 10 | Most often the support band are terrible , but they could have been great and they could have been you . |
| 11 | Their feet became stuck and they could then easily be caught and killed for the pot . |
| 12 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 13 | Their furs were too thick and they could feel very little of each other , but Tallis unfastened his cloak and quickly kissed the cold , taut skin of his throat . |
| 14 | That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin . |
| 15 | The partitions were thin and they could hear Garland giving instructions to his patient to make certain movements and assume certain postures . |
| 16 | But it was still very difficult , because every day I was in London I was moving from one business to the other and they could not have been more different in character . |
| 17 | In America , they made six hundred prints of the film and decided these bits were supposed to be in black-and-white and they could fix it ! |
| 18 | The light grew dull and they could smell rain approaching from the west . |
| 19 | Apart from these special sessions we encouraged more and more people to make statements in the main inquiry ( where the atmosphere was more formal and they could be cross-examined by a CEGB barrister ) . |
| 20 | Otherwise the darkness was intense and they could barely distinguish the ground at their feet . |
| 21 | The precise nature of neutrophil chemoattractants in these disorders is unknown and they could be of a diverse nature including microbial , chemical ( including prostanoids ) or indeed in ulcerative colitis the damaged colonocytes themselves . |