Example sentences of "[conj] he could [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hop up behind her and pop her one with the blackjack , no discussion , no fuss , just an instant human sack that he could throw over his shoulder and rush to the car . |
| 2 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 3 | As with other defectors , the glory went to Golitsin 's head and he was soon proposing that he be allowed to establish a world-wide intelligence research organisation with unlimited funds so that he could play out his fantasies against the KGB . |
| 4 | The petition , which was presented both to the king and the College of Physicians and referred to the archbishop of Canterbury , alleged that Chamberlen had pecuniary interests in keeping midwives ignorant so that he could take on their difficult cases . |
| 5 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 6 | It did not occur to him to propose to Emily and assume that he could live off his wife . |
| 7 | Maybe he got ten thousand from one place so he could pay off someone else . |
| 8 | He really should go in search of his squire and order some hot water so he could wash away his own grime before sitting down to table . |
| 9 | I dropped Patterson back at the PKB office so he could pick up his BMW and , though he did n't say it , I think he was glad he 'd left it behind . |
| 10 | ‘ He said he was walking along the middle line so he could see where he was going , ’ said Mr Wellens , of Blue Ridge , Morton-on-Swale . |
| 11 | He could remember how his father had said that he need bow his head to no man in Ireland , save the High Queen , and he could remember how he had laughed , and said to be sure he would call no man master , and certainly no woman either . |
| 12 | ‘ Alright … alright … ’ said Duvall , complacently now , as if he could sort out their problems rationally . |
| 13 | She asked if he could suggest how she could contact an MP . |
| 14 | Inevitably a feeling of despair enveloped him and he began to feel quite helpless ; his heart was in his studies and he knew that if he could manage financially he could achieve his academic rewards , but the insufficient amounts of money his father allowed him did n't permit any freedom to relax after his studies had ended . |
| 15 | But he could make out her form stretching up to the light . |
| 16 | The first few strenuous bridging moves sowed the seeds of doubt — not over the route 's identity so much as whether he could get up it . |
| 17 | I could see Quigley was about to make another move , but before he could do so I held out my hands , palm downwards , in a gesture much favoured by Mr Toombs in his last ecclesiastical campaign . |
| 18 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 19 | Luckily he had fallen asleep again before he could find out who was responsible . |