Example sentences of "they could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime . |
| 2 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 3 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 4 | He ran across the wet road and over to the hospital entrance before any of them could answer him . |
| 5 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 6 | We will see , in Part Two , how much better stopping them could make you feel . |
| 7 | Two of them could handle it but the other one … |
| 8 | He moved up to kiss her while his hand continued to stroke her aching body , then , when neither of them could bear it any longer , he thrust into her , and she arched back , drowning under wave after wave of mounting pleasure . |
| 9 | If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But of course he did n't and none of them could see what he felt like . |
| 12 | The Man had taken his jacket off and was holding it out in front of him and all of them could see what he intended to do . |
| 13 | Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up . |
| 14 | Both of them could attribute their popularity to the fact that in the old days , when opening hours were not so well controlled , they stayed open longer than others , with the result that patrons of The Cock and The Bull were usually the most tipsy . |
| 15 | Not like they were in the dreams he had had recently , where they could torment him without his being able to retaliate . |
| 16 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 17 | Anne and Chris did n't want to return full time to stressful teaching jobs when their maternity leave ended , so together they sent in a joint application for a full-time position with a covering letter pointing out the benefits of job sharing , and the way they could organize their week and their timetable . |
| 18 | They looked as though they could shoulder their way through solid rock and beat up a regiment of trolls into the bargain . |
| 19 | The overseers of the poor could board out orphans , and then apprentice them until they could earn their own living . |
| 20 | This gave married women independent status as taxpayers , i.e. they could control their own tax affairs . |
| 21 | The first group had taken up position in all the key intersections so that they could control anyone who attempted to pass . |
| 22 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 23 | But Alan Milburn , Labour candidate for Darlington , hit back saying they could meet their promises . |
| 24 | The designers , Dr Barry Gorham and Jim Dudley , say that theoretically , by applying the same technology to microwaves , they could extend its range over a much wider area — even rain and snow . |
| 25 | But if Cowans is in form they could extend their unbeaten League run to six games . |
| 26 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 27 | Tension choked them : they could feel it rising up their throats , threatening to swamp their brains . |
| 28 | Pals would often tell the star — whose new single , Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad , is out next week — they could feel his arm , even though it had gone . |
| 29 | They did n't know what she was talking about but they could feel she was frightened . |
| 30 | Not surprisingly , the daughter and her husband were less than thrilled at this and the further suggestion that they could rent their home back ! |