Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quality of passionate and intelligent realism he could bring to a part was not in demand until many years later . |
| 2 | He could sit on a terrace in the French quarter , sipping wine , and feel he was in France . |
| 3 | When it mattered , Leonard was a learner ; he could sit at a man 's feet and absorb completely . |
| 4 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 5 | He could pass for a European , an Italian or a Frenchman from one of the Southern regions , like Provence . |
| 6 | He could pass for a native of Sweden certainly , and probably of Norway and of Denmark . |
| 7 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 8 | He could start with a win against Frederik Johnson , the Swedish international , but it is hard to see any of the other rejects surviving , except perhaps Jamie Hickox or Chris Walker . |
| 9 | He had moved out to escape distraction and improve on the bad lighting , but more than anything he wanted space , so that he could draw from a model occasionally . |
| 10 | He could go to a phone box . |
| 11 | Or he could go for a referendum . |
| 12 | The employees were occasionally terrified of Bernard ‘ as if he had one over him , ’ as they described it , but they all knew that however much he might stamp and shout while the anger lasted , he could go for a walk and come back as if nothing had happened . |
| 13 | When there was nothing but ash he could crumble with a stick he went back up to his room . |
| 14 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 15 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 16 | He 'd started by thinking he could do without a chauffeur . |
| 17 | He was gormless , spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside . |
| 18 | Joking with Kalchu , he said he could do with a guard dog like that , fierce and resilient . |
| 19 | ‘ He has come on nicely since the Hennessy and has been working well but he could do with a run this week , ’ he added . |
| 20 | Although Graham rarely touched alcohol , he could do with a beer in the heat . |
| 21 | ‘ I think he could do with a drop of Guinness to liven him up , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Sausages , however , he could do to a turn . |
| 23 | He could bay as a wolf . |
| 24 | The President of the European Commission , Jacques Delors , speaking at the same conference , said more explicitly that he could conceive of a situation in which France 's nuclear umbrella could one day be extended to the entire EC under a common doctrine . |
| 25 | Everyone hoped to have at least four " ways out " , along which he could travel in a crisis . |
| 26 | Not only were his carts and equipment a great encumbrance , but Gould was limited in the amount of ground he could cover by a scarcity of supplies . |
| 27 | ‘ I would not suggest Dalton is in the Liverpool or Arsenal class , but he could fit into a mid-table side . |
| 28 | Before he could fit in a visit , he was forestalled by Len Brayton , Maisie 's father , who rode down to Aumery Park Farm one Wednesday in mid-January , after attending the market at Kirkbymoorside . |
| 29 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 30 | The pan was past rescuing but he thought he could manage with a nonstick saucepan . |