Example sentences of "they could [vb infin] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 19 July Roberts and Cross wrote to Dr John Lawrence at SWWA suggesting that the public had been exposed to a more serious hazard than had been admitted : they were told that they could meet Lawrence but he would give them no information . |
| 2 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
| 3 | For the time being they could evade Allen 's choice by challenging the assumption that the League represented anything more than the collective security of a group of satisfied imperial powers . |
| 4 | There was plenty of material to work from : Latin was compulsory at Plumford Grammar School ; the English master had drummed into their memories large sections of Macaulay 's Lays of Ancient Rome ; they had read novels with a Roman background , like Rosemary Sutcliff 's Eagle of the Ninth and Robert Graves ' I , Claudius ; and they could plunder Hubert Molland 's classical library for further information as the need arose . |
| 5 | Martha tried not to wish , as they set out , that they could leave Tilda behind . |
| 6 | I just do n't understand all these buses with the open tops it 's freezing out there and all these tourists look they could walk Rachael . |
| 7 | That gives them the chance for promotion to the British League , where they could face Swindon and Milton Keynes . |
| 8 | That gives them the chance for promotion to the British League , where they could face Swindon and Milton Keynes . |
| 9 | She felt sure that they could haul Simon out with it . |
| 10 | Moreover the Livermore study concluded that it would be easy to adapt designs for tomorrow 's reactors so they could burn MOX exclusively — rather than a mixture , one-third MOX and two-thirds uranium , as is the practice today . |
| 11 | By mid-forenoon they could see Dunbar 's towers ahead ; and by noontide they were under the outer castle-bridge , with Ramsay shouting up his name to the watch and asking for the Countess Agnes . |
| 12 | Although the moon had set , they could see Maldita 's ghostly white body slumped in the corner like a cast-off shroud . |
| 13 | Through the open door of her room they could see Barbara Coleman 's packed bag just as she had promised . |
| 14 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |
| 15 | Gloucester , travelling south from Yorkshire , proposed a rendezvous with the prince and his escort so that they could enter London together , and the prince 's route was modified accordingly . |
| 16 | Gloucester , travelling south from Yorkshire , proposed a rendezvous with the prince and his escort so that they could enter London together , and the prince 's route was modified accordingly . |
| 17 | If Edinburgh could match the offer by June 1990 they could keep Lizzie . |
| 18 | They could hear Nelson and Joe working good-naturedly on the door , but not another word passed between them . |
| 19 | They could hear Oliver banging and kicking at the cellar door . |
| 20 | They could hear Doctor McCann moving about in Una 's bedroom overhead . |
| 21 | Inside they could hear Mr O'Donnell , the vet , playing his accordion but nobody was singing . |
| 22 | They could hear Rachel 's commanding voice out on the landing , showing the firemen up to Maggie 's room . |
| 23 | The partitions were thin and they could hear Garland giving instructions to his patient to make certain movements and assume certain postures . |
| 24 | In 1982 they could desert Mr Schmidt for Mr Kohl because they and the Christian Democrats together had a majority in the Bundestag , the lower house . |
| 25 | The only reason they could get Miss Grower on the staff was that Incident at her previous school , you know … ’ |
| 26 | Mom would probably give her back teeth to make a picture with McQueen but nobody would cast her if they could get Faye Dunaway . |
| 27 | Seitz asks readers if they could imagine Ben Hogan or Arnold Palmer ever going to a sports psychologist . |
| 28 | They were welcome for what they could help China to achieve in practical terms , but their politics and social attitudes were reviled . |
| 29 | IN RECOGNITION of their expertise in stainless steel welding , Enterprise Engineering Services was recently asked if they could help Woodlands School in Aberdeen . |
| 30 | Then they could follow Hess by phone , and Carrington could head off immediately to the spot where he 'd ‘ kissed the deck ’ to make sure some Home Guard maniac did n't put a bullet in him . |