* May 9 – The American general John Sedgwick is shot dead during the Battle of Spotsylvania, shortly after he uttered the famous last words: " They couldn't hit an elephant from this distance!

*( They ) couldn't beat the Sisters of Mercy: The team is getting beat badly.

*( They ) couldn't throw a pea into the ocean: The team's shooting is really awful.

They couldn't send voice at the frequency she asked for, so Morse code signals were sent instead.

They couldn't do anything about the federal government so they tried protesting and fight for rights.

They surmised that this must have been built by some long forgotten people as they couldn't imagine the native Mayans as having lived in the city.

They unfortunately couldn't avoid relegation in 2007 after more than 10 years in the third division.

They decided they couldn't afford to take the time from their schedules unless it was a working vacation, and used the trip to research the defeat of the Admiral Graf Spee.

They couldn't cope with him, he went demented in the horsebox, injured his leg and they killed him.

They are the couple Nancy couldn't locate in River Heights, who committed the banking crimes her father was reviewing.

They couldn't support themselves in that place, so they went to a certain island off the coast of Estland, called Dagö, and settled there and built a town that can still be seen.

They had me so intimidated that I couldn't have done it anyway.

They couldn't outwork me.

They couldn't outwork me!

They knew they couldn't change the James West role very much, but it was open season on Artemus Gordon because they had never seen anything like him before.

" They couldn't pay me very much, and I said, " I'm making more than that in radio right now ," so I turned it down ...

They reason that Discworld, with the sunshine, flowers, birds, trees, things to steal and people to fight, must be some sort of heaven, because " a world that good couldn't be open to just anybody, they say.

They couldn't understand that a dictator like Saddam Hussein had invested a large share of oil revenues in infrastructure projects, such as highways, modern irrigation canals and industrial plants, which one doesn't find in just any country.

They said it couldn't be done, a history of the Textile Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, CLC.

They thought he'd been leading her on, because just that day Andy had heard in his lawyer's office that Dylan had been secretly married for a few months – he married Sara Lownds in November 1965 ... Andy couldn't resist asking, ' Did you know, Edie, that Bob Dylan has gotten married?

They couldn't get married until he found a job.

They had managed to score in the group stage against Brazil but couldn't do it a second time.

They found Steve Lukather's performance as chief lead vocalist of such quality that it was puzzling why he hadn't been given the role earlier, and concluded " You couldn't call the result accomplished, but Tambu suggested that Toto was embarked on a new personal and musical journey that might lead in an interesting direction.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

They have pulled out all my teeth and now she will carve out my tongue with her hacksaw!!

They have also led the nation in the direction of a welfare state.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

They, too, have fragments of the go code with them.

As Wisman put it, `` They have separate pieces of the pie, and we have the whole pie.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

They are in general those fears that once seemed to have been amenable to prayer or ritual.

They are presumed to have plunged to a common grave in this fatal embrace.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.

They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.

They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.

They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

They have remained on the opened page of my mind in all the years which since have passed.

They, in effect, have compromised the opposing positions of the nineteenth century.

They, too, have links with the city's ills.

They opposed the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction ; ;