Example sentences of "he could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 2 | No-one who looked at him could meet his gaze . |
| 3 | A doctor , Alvarez was alleged to have participated in the 1985 torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena-Salazar by helping to prolong the agent 's life so that the drug-traffickers who had captured him could continue to interrogate him . |
| 4 | A 15-year-old boy 's battle to force his mother to talk to him could end in stalemate due to the wording of the Children Act . |
| 5 | If meeting him could make you reach for something a lot stronger than H 2 O , you will be relieved to hear that he 's anchored to the ground . |
| 6 | It might not matter in the end — Forester fully expected to be traced and caught-but every difficulty and delay that he could strew behind him could make a final difference of hours or even minutes that might determine the distinction between success or failure . |
| 7 | Stevens was one of the most meticulous of film directors and any actor working with him could expect a gruelling time . |
| 8 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 9 | We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers . |
| 10 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 11 | No one who heard him could doubt the strength of his commitment . |
| 12 | If the treatment has caused any physical damage ( for example to your scalp or face ) visit your GP as a statement from him could help your case . |
| 13 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 14 | She might then have been younger than Oswiu and her liaison with him could have occurred c . |
| 15 | In 1958 Ken 's star was rising faster than anyone who had known him could have thought possible . |
| 16 | Held , allowing the appeal ( Lord Lowry dissenting ) , that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner of goods or consented to by him could amount to an appropriation of the goods within section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 where such authority or consent had been obtained by deception ; and that , accordingly , the defendant had been rightly convicted of theft ( post , pp. 1073F , 1076G–H , 1080C–F , 1081C–D , 1109F , 1111E ) . |
| 17 | The threat to him could come from Paul Hourihan , who finished fourth on that occasion but was just eight centimetres adrift . |
| 18 | How he thought he could love Mama so much and dislike her friends and relations on the grounds that they were Italian , I do n't know . |
| 19 | He was grieving for his own pain and sense of loss at not having a father whom he could love . |
| 20 | Riven realised with no surprise that he could love this world and its people , despite the heartbreak it had wrought on him . |
| 21 | He wanted a home , someone he could love , someone he could relax with . |
| 22 | She wished he could love her ! |
| 23 | The world could be lost and she would think it well lost if only he could love her . |
| 24 | He just got dormitory accommodation and as much food as he could eat . |
| 25 | He was untwisting the top of the bag so that he could eat some more . |
| 26 | Wayne , Ricky 's favourite pony , had such a low threshold of boredom that he had a special manger hooked over the half-door so he could eat and miss nothing in the yard at the same time . |
| 27 | A MAGISTRATE gave his packed lunch to a hungry down-and-out yesterday after the man begged to be jailed so that he could eat . |
| 28 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 29 | Stewart told us that Whaddon 's offer of a free bus pass and as many pizza slices as he could eat if he signed for the club was ‘ frankly , insulting ’ . |
| 30 | Maybe he could eat the pages . |