Example sentences of "could [vb infin] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is equally clear that some directors have privately expressed fears that , given the crudeness with which the 1993–4 budget trends will have been constructed , severe cash shortages could affect them by September . |
| 2 | Grammar schools already had adequate facilities or could build them from scratch . |
| 3 | but even then we could have consignment stock here in effect cos they 're only forty minutes away , we could throw 'em in the back of the car and have 'em delivered . |
| 4 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 5 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 6 | They were able to request anything they wanted from their administrative colleagues which they felt could aid them on any given mission . |
| 7 | When the statement was just a proposal banks objected to it fiercely , arguing that unpredictable day-to-day swings in securities prices , for example , could expose them to crises of confidence among investors . |
| 8 | The treatment can offset some effects of menopause , including brittle bone disease — osteoporosis — but the study reveals that the wrong kind of HRT could expose them to the risk of womb cancer . |
| 9 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 10 | He could lend them to others . |
| 11 | But even with his new London base it was impossible to gather enough talent from both his schools for the coming Christmas , so he advertised for dancers in the trade papers and took a chance that he could knock them into shape . |
| 12 | He observed that here there was no need to grow trees from seed ; one could buy them in various sizes , ‘ cultivated and clipped ’ at a moderate price on account of many competitive tradesmen . |
| 13 | Home Office officials are keen to watch the progress of these schemes and in future could include them as a qualification for senior police posts . |
| 14 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 15 | We could hang them on the walls . |
| 16 | We could venerate them as ancestors . |
| 17 | I could predict them with reasonable assurance in each case , except Addy . |
| 18 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 19 | Instinctively they fear the strength of the emotional ties with their mother , which could prevent them from becoming mature and independent men . |
| 20 | Then you could edit them for her , if you feel you are willing for her to use them … . |
| 21 | Julia could n't sleep because she could smell them in her room , so she came into my room to talk to me . |
| 22 | Crates , concealing the feral cats who could negotiate them without disturbance , crashed into disarray , furry bodies sleeking out and away . |
| 23 | Banks prefer to lend short-term because their borrowing ( at least from depositors ) is short-term and changes in interest rates could lock them into long-term loans that were uneconomical . |
| 24 | Careful explanations at this time could give them at least an inkling of the importance of the game , and some measure of preparation for the time when it will be no game , but a reality of great promise . |
| 25 | Charles II found land grants very convenient ; he could give them to people who at the beginning of the century would have asked for monopolies and he could feel confident that these grants would not rouse the hostility in England that monopolies had caused . |
| 26 | She had bought some cigarettes for John and was wondering when she could give them to him . |
| 27 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 28 | Below are some guidelines you could give them for using video on their own . |
| 29 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 30 | It would be more convenient for me if I could collect them on Friday 10 May in the afternoon , say at 3.30 p.m. or later rather than at 11.30 a.m . |