Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he could [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge . |
| 2 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge from the current upheaval . |
| 3 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 4 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 5 | He did not know if he could play the flute and he was afraid to try . |
| 6 | There was something he had to do , and he did n't know if he could find the courage . |
| 7 | When I said she was n't here , he asked where she was and I said Maidstone and he said she 'd moved and I said then I did n't know but he could leave the flowers here for Frank but he would n't . |
| 8 | You see , the poor did n't know whether he could afford the contract or not . |
| 9 | Also he was worried about a model he had arranged to hire through Mauve , and then doubted whether he could pay the price . |
| 10 | He rang Davidson to confirm that he could make the eight a. m. appointment . |
| 11 | It was won because Labour was the party of high taxation , because the Conservative Party presented an alternative , and because most electors neither admired Mr Kinnock nor believed that he could deliver the promises that he was making . |
| 12 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 13 | The deceased added that he could sign the document anywhere . |
| 14 | It was said that he could estimate the structure of the whole creature from just a single bone . |
| 15 | He noticed that he could predict the direction to the food source form the dance . |
| 16 | He might forfeit the respect of the fastidious few : that would not matter if he could win the votes of the many . |
| 17 | Nothing was said but he could sense the optimism all round the company . |
| 18 | ‘ That as soon as he was refuelled he took the opportunity of seeing if he could locate the remains of that American plane ? ’ |
| 19 | We then had a stroke of luck as Filden I broke down in Dieppe and the owner was sent to see if he could locate the trouble . |
| 20 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 21 | So , he grafted tissue from the posterior margin that would die to other parts of the chick limb to see if he could rescue the cells from death . |
| 22 | There must have been something specially feline about that particular note , because Gautier carried out experiments to see if he could fool the cat , but she always responded with her critical paw precisely when the note reached high A. |
| 23 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 24 | ( In this particular case Hertz was testing Maxwell 's electromagnetic theory to see if he could produce the radio waves predicted by that theory . ) |
| 25 | ‘ You said it ’ , slammed back Wimbush , ‘ and I bet he 'd puke if he could see the hollow tribute you 've paid him . ’ |
| 26 | Before he could go out so as to wait until he could have the place to himself , the figure levered himself up , bowed to the altar , and turned and saw him . |
| 27 | He came to our house and knocked on the door and asked if he could use the toilet , because it was a good way of getting in . |
| 28 | Duncan , seeing that there was no phone-extension in the room , asked if he could use the manager 's . |
| 29 | yeah , I 'm going to go back into my bedroom and Neil can still use the ensuite shower cos he 's got the tip of the idea that he 's got to come in clothed and knock on the door cos last time I was in my bedroom he asked if he could use the shower , situation he 'd you know , and I 'd let him after all , it 's not as though my be , there 's a door between my bedroom and the |
| 30 | He called at the Vicarage at about half past two and asked if he could see the church . |