Example sentences of "he could [verb] anything " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was that stupid he could do anything . |
| 2 | He could do anything . |
| 3 | If he got into one of his queer moods he could do anything . |
| 4 | I thought he could do anything . |
| 5 | He could do anything with , to or for this fictional character , simply by lifting up his pen . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , he could do anything — modelling , acting … |
| 7 | Before he could do anything more another wave lifted him high into the foam-filled wind , then dizzyingly dropped him down into a hole in the ocean . |
| 8 | He just turned it up and he could make the thing do anything he liked : make toast or take the dog for a walk , answer the door … he could do anything with it . ’ |
| 9 | It happened that one of the doctors practised hypnosis , and the sister of the ward concerned approached him and asked him if he could do anything to calm this patient who was disrupting the ward routine and upsetting the nurses . |
| 10 | It was a weakness , he supposed , but not one he could do anything about . |
| 11 | He did n't look like he could do anything more strenuous than spit out a grape-pip . |
| 12 | ‘ Will you telephone Harriman and ask if he could do anything in the way of intervention ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Even if he did it seems a bit far-fetched to think he could do anything about it . |
| 14 | He could do anything . |
| 15 | Auguste returned to Broadstairs by donkey cart , somewhat cheered , feeling he could face anything . |
| 16 | He could grow anything . |
| 17 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |
| 18 | Roirbak experienced a moment of panic , sure it was one of Penumbra 's staff , arrived too soon before he could work anything out , when Mellissa informed him the visitor was Leila Saatchi . |
| 19 | ‘ Probably you as well , Sir , ’ I replied , ‘ Your own trench is just over the wall in Brigade H.Q ’ He glared up at me and before he could say anything I beat a hasty retreat . |
| 20 | Before he could say anything , the telephone on the Grecian plinth nearest to the girl gave a muted double purr . |
| 21 | Before he could say anything Mrs Woodward exclaimed ‘ Is n't it strange to see a train at this time of night ? ’ |
| 22 | His eyes opened in alarm , but before he could say anything his concentration lapsed and he dropped like a stone , vanishing behind the far end of the table . |
| 23 | Before he could say anything , Legion answered his question in a prim falsetto . |
| 24 | And had put down the receiver before he could say anything at all . |
| 25 | She turned and ran back to the house before he could say anything else . |
| 26 | He collapsed into a chair and began to cry … it was ages before he could say anything . |
| 27 | But , before he could say anything , Mrs Danby emerged from round a large pile of tins of tuna-fish . |
| 28 | The fact that Hitler was out of Germany , at the Führer Headquarters in the east , and engaged in the conduct of the war against the Bolshevik arch-enemy — a war which he had long prophesied as inevitable in order to defend Christian Europe — evidently made it unthinkable for many that he could have anything to do with the ‘ godless Bolshevism ’ of the brownshirts at home . |
| 29 | ‘ Why would your son want Sleet when , if he sold it to me , he could have anything he wanted ? |
| 30 | Selkirk was killed before he could reveal anything . |