Example sentences of "them could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theirs was the charm of not being bourgeois , and the foreigners among them could be , or could come across as , princes , pretenders to a throne , descendants of a khan . |
| 2 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 3 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 4 | Neither the captive nor her would-be liberator wasted much time complaining : these were the rules of the game , and the two of them could only be patient . |
| 5 | To throw up an impenetrable Berlin Wall between you and them could be tactless . |
| 6 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 7 | Ratepayer democracy … implied less local government , with fewer services to provide since some of them could be handed over to the private sector , to the supposed benefit of consumers and ratepayers alike . |
| 8 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 9 | Normally that should present no problem to the team batting second , but none of them could dominate the bowling and the low total seemed to spur England to some brilliant fielding ; when Botham got Gomes and Richards in successive overs , the game moved England 's way , and the rest of the wickets drifted away for a total of just 148 . |
| 10 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 11 | But of course he did n't and none of them could see what he felt like . |
| 12 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 13 | If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special . |
| 14 | This can be compared with the gold content of the undated coins in the Sutton Hoo burial , and it is apparent that none of them could be later than AD 630 . |
| 15 | The trust said the prices would generally amount to about two-thirds of their market value and those who could not afford to buy them could rent through a housing association . |
| 16 | But there remained one crucial detail , not covered by protocol , which neither of them could remember : had Sir Denis accompanied her to Buckingham Palace when she kissed hands with the Queen ? |
| 17 | I know they are all going to get a great deal out of this experience , I am deeply grateful for all the help that is being given them , they have had such a worrying time , I do not think one of them could have had a holiday this year without help , but I have faith to think it will be a good investment for the WEA . |
| 18 | Additionally , Blake was involved in checking Communist infiltration into the British sector and as part of these duties he began to learn Russian and had some officially approved contact with the Russians as part of a plan to see whether any of them could be persuaded to become British agents . |
| 19 | Moreover , only a conditional right of savages to the land occupied by them could be recognized . |
| 20 | Neither was short of opportunities to form new relationships , but somehow neither of them could be bothered to do so . |
| 21 | In fact , a lot of them could see little point in the movie at all . |
| 22 | Now however Ludens had stepped for a moment inside the charmed circle , and things between them could never be the same again . |
| 23 | This was a warning which , as Fergus Pyle reported , very few of them could have heard . |
| 24 | Her favourite partner was her father ; neither of them could serve to save their lives and most of the balls ended up scattered on the lawn , but they made a handsome couple on the court . |
| 25 | The two of them could even end up working together against Lachlan . |
| 26 | The plight of the injured was an unenviable one ; several of them could not be moved . |
| 27 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |
| 28 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |
| 29 | Each one of them could have been double-bogeys or worse ! |
| 30 | Though they can not detain us here , an examination of them could well be a step towards dispelling them for ever . |