Example sentences of "could he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , now , when you see the doctor , if he decides to mend you with one or two stitches , you tell him I said , could he please give you a stitch to take home in a matchbox ? |
| 2 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 3 | Nor could he even remember now what he had said in that burst of spleen . |
| 4 | How could he even contemplate she might behave badly ? |
| 5 | How could he even ask ? |
| 6 | How could he even think that , let alone say it ? |
| 7 | Wilson 's claim in 1902 that 40 per cent of NFSU members were foreign was illustrative of his conviction that only by protecting foreigners could he also protect British nationals . |
| 8 | Could he also tell me whether he said on 16 December 1983 : ’ We are committed to a non-nuclear defence policy ? ’ |
| 9 | Only with incredible luck , against all the odds , could he reasonably hope to make a safe exit from Russian soil and reach safe ground from which the Americans might be able to extricate him in one piece . |
| 10 | But what more could he reasonably expect of her ? |
| 11 | How could he just — |
| 12 | Could he just make sure though that in his plans by defining community care and by by that I mean social care as opposed to health care , in a certain way . |
| 13 | Nor could he safely convey tissue to his mouth on such a blade ; which could easily sever his own tongue . |
| 14 | He wanted , too , to fly out over Cape Wrath itself , and feel the sea-winds rise under his wings , for his father had said that only then could he truly call himself an eagle of Wrath . |
| 15 | But a more pertinent question is , could he morally continue to become Defender of the Faith and head of the Church of England ? |
| 16 | Oh yeah , no , I understood that , but I mean , I thought , could , could he actually over-rule the client 's specialist , that 's all I 'm saying . |
| 17 | How could he ever become a peacemaker ? |
| 18 | Could he ever hope , he wondered , to have such comfort in his own home ? |
| 19 | Could he ever have been in love with her ? |
| 20 | Could he ever be like that ? |
| 21 | How could he ever admit to Maisie that the very thing that had brought them together was , like so much else in his life , a lie ? |
| 22 | If he had , how could he ever contemplate marrying another woman ? |
| 23 | Could he really complain ? |
| 24 | Could he really let his only child become a part of this family ? |
| 25 | How much grey sunlight could he really stand ? |
| 26 | Could he really change , he wondered ? |
| 27 | And since whatever happened he would have to take the London train , could he really expose her — a woman who had one child and so could surely have another — to the risk of her own fertility ? |
| 28 | Could he really be almost sixty ? |
| 29 | ‘ Could he really not have managed without you ? ’ |
| 30 | Could he really make a million before he was forty , or had Becky just been teasing him ? |