Example sentences of "[verb] they could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met thousands of people who pretended they could teach me how to do it . |
| 2 | Other readers , trying to buy houses , might be glad to find they could afford them . |
| 3 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 4 | Well they found they could do it far better with a tractor and a mower . |
| 5 | Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site , people believed they could do it again , and did . |
| 6 | If they liked you they believed they could teach you to do anything and by God ! you 'd do , it as well as anyone . |
| 7 | They 'd decided they could tell me , they could trust me . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a great shame because every year the prize-wining pumpkin is used in the seeds contest by a local pub and I 'd already said they could have it . ’ |
| 9 | Well there 's a physical limit to how much we could produce in a an eight hour shift and all the slate makers were adamant that the figures he reckoned they could produce and what they reckoned they could produce you know they were totally different . |
| 10 | Initially it was the drumming that got me bouncing in my seat , but when the bass came in I just could n't help grinning insanely at all the other drivers , wishing they could hear it too ( mind you , I had it up so loud that they probably could ) . |
| 11 | I suppose they could do it , yeah . |
| 12 | I suppose they could send me out tomorrow |
| 13 | I suppose they could see I was in a mild state of shock . |
| 14 | Or feel they could do it ? |
| 15 | fifty pence each , right , erm , and er fill in the slips and either bring them back to us or send them off yourself to Headquarters , shall I put , I 'll put those out for anybody who feel they could sell them , it all , it all helps to raise money for Amnesty and helps to get them erm spend the money on the new prisoner 's . |
| 16 | They were the only ones who realized they could do it because God was with them . |
| 17 | Bill Mumford says of course they will make it … they would not be going if they did not think they could do it … they have been well prepared … |
| 18 | If we allowed it to happen once then all the people who read your paper would think they could do it as well . ’ |
| 19 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |
| 20 | I mean they could give you a decent stand to put it in cos I hate those ones at Sainsbury 's . |
| 21 | We will see , in Part Two , how much better stopping them could make you feel . |
| 22 | Crabtree and Evelyn is not a name I would instantly associate with culinary excellence — though I always knew they could make you smell nice . |
| 23 | The concept 's so simple and and the country 's littered with people who thought they could do it as well as us . |
| 24 | I had thought that builders built houses when they thought they thought they could sell them , I did n't realize it was part of some altruistic policy of complying with planning policy , still we learn everything every day , do n't we ? |
| 25 | No and you see it 's just them two I think they could put him sort of like in the hall and if there 's a |
| 26 | Cranston was annoyed now by the arrogance of these people , thinking they could push him around whenever they wished . |
| 27 | I then tried another shareware firm who said they could send me registered copies for £40.50 . |
| 28 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 29 | Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure . |
| 30 | Now la last There 's two people down here last week , they said they could hear me breathing |