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 .
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