Example sentences of "they could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not like they were in the dreams he had had recently , where they could torment him without his being able to retaliate . |
| 2 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 3 | Tension choked them : they could feel it rising up their throats , threatening to swamp their brains . |
| 4 | They did n't know what she was talking about but they could feel she was frightened . |
| 5 | Oh on Mondays and Saturdays two or three times a week and it was er available for anyone that want to hold a dance they could rent it there was no jitterbugging it was just the waltz or foxtrot and two step and then we got er one they used to kick their legs about |
| 6 | If you are earning more money and you hav n't got enough points , they could move you from a specialist department to a police station . |
| 7 | On some , the roofs were so flimsy they could pull them off with rakes alone . |
| 8 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 9 | They did that with the neeps so that when the man came along with a cart they could throw them , you see . |
| 10 | I had to repeat very simple sentences , six , seven , eight , ten times before they could repeat it . |
| 11 | They thought that they could wear her down . |
| 12 | The Cotton Twist Company rarely sacked anyone if they could wear them out first . |
| 13 | They do , they , they could wear you out . |
| 14 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 15 | Alongside the rivalry which characterized foreign relations in the Middle East , most governments desired peace if they could achieve it without weakening their own position . |
| 16 | No one of the three communities A , B and C would be willing to pay more than £300 to join in a group scheme , since they could go it alone for £300 . |
| 17 | But , she said , if Dew members wished to they could present it back to her and she would ensure it went through the proper channels for presentation to the borough council . |
| 18 | If only I was they could lock me up somewhere quiet and take care of me . |
| 19 | If the scientists had enough systems they could distinguish them all , the blood types I mean . |
| 20 | Under his ministry the Church grew but they could pay him very little . |
| 21 | The German 's rates differed from girl to girl , and with some he had an arrangement that he received a commission rather than a rent per room ; the advantage here for the girls was that they could pay him at the end of the night , rather than each time they used the room And to ensure they did n't even think about cheating , he employed a " caretaker " whose job was to keep a tally of the girls and their customers . |
| 22 | They would have no direct control over such institutions except that they could pay them for particular services . |
| 23 | instead of saying , telling the er insurance people that they 'd give them the bills and they could pay them as they came in , he said they 'd got a lump sum . |
| 24 | And wait to such times as they could pay it back , |
| 25 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 26 | Even then it piled up far faster than they could analyse it . |
| 27 | Full marks on their specialist round on palms — lots of long unpronounceable latin names , and then on to the quick fire round where they could blow it all by answering incorrectly . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | One of the gruesome factors about this particular stitch in the Arran is that every family had its own pattern and the reason for that was often the menfolk were lost at sea and the only way they could identify them was through the pattern . |
| 30 | At the start of my period of being harassed , I went down to my local law centre to see what help they could give me . |