Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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1 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
2 | He could swear but I had n't got to do . |
3 | If he could prove that it had too much give in it he would at least have a line of defence if he was summoned to court . |
4 | As he lolled in his chair , not asleep but relaxed , he could remember that he had felt no tension , less excitement , as he had thrown his bag into the back seat of the car , climbed into the front carrying the Ruger with the integral silencer in a large plastic shopping bag . |
5 | The second man had lunged across the target , he could remember that , and he could remember that he had kept squeezing the trigger . |
6 | William said it was the best political occasion he could remember since he had heard Aneurin Bevan speak in South Wales during the war . |
7 | He could say that he had the power but no obligation to do so . |
8 | He could see that something had happened . |
9 | When he stood back , he could see that he had created a superb landscape with figures . |
10 | It was a long speech and he could see that it had tired her . |
11 | But peering more closely he could see that someone had recently been writing with a fountain pen . |