Example sentences of "[verb] he could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 2 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 3 | At fourteen he found he could also copy perfectly any handwriting placed in front of him . |
| 4 | He found he could no longer hide behind a naive love , a sensuous world of uncomplex bohemia and he was drawn , still yearning for past ignorance , not up or down , but along to a state of affairs that simply put he could not cope with . |
| 5 | He spoke slowly , his gaze never leaving Fairham , who found he could only hold that gaze for a couple of seconds at a time . |
| 6 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 7 | The wind caught at him , blew at him , a gusty enemy he found he could hardly overcome . |
| 8 | ‘ If Mashaallah gets the mud he wants he could well run in the Arc . ’ |
| 9 | Gazza 's condition had baffled experts at an animal sanctuary but now they say he could soon be just as spiny as any other hedgehog . |
| 10 | It was a question of how he believed he could best attain his major political purposes . |
| 11 | I suggested that he might like to go and have a talk with his crew , I did not want to send him back to his squadron , but with a new navigator I believed he could eventually forge a good Pathfinding crew . |
| 12 | The good news for Prince Charles is 70pc believed he could still be king , despite his separation from Princess Diana , but the bad news was only 45pc thought he would be a good one . |
| 13 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 14 | John Thaw says he could never have guessed when he started that the show would become so popular . |
| 15 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 16 | He watched her blush , and imagined he could actually feel a little glow of heat on his own skin , radiating off her warmth . |
| 17 | But the way he 's going he could just end up as the next Vinnie Jones . |
| 18 | Writing from his prison cell in the Republic where he is serving 10 years for armed robbery , McGlinchey claimed he could easily tap into a central databank of RUC files . |
| 19 | Almost , but Reynolds reckoned he could just about handle it . |
| 20 | That he reckoned he could still do . |
| 21 | Pressure mounted against Jaq 's armour , and though the armour could withstand far greater stress before crumpling he could hardly move even under full power . |
| 22 | He had returned from Addis Ababa two days before , apparently cured , but his throat had now flared up again and when I arrived he could hardly speak . |
| 23 | His tummy had grown very large and when he walked he could no longer see his thin , mis-shapen legs . |
| 24 | Mr McKillen , who has offered a £100 reward to help trace the donkey , has not ruled out the possibility that a jealous rival owner may have taken Toby but fears he could already be dead . |
| 25 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 26 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 27 | In so doing he could still ensure loyalty to the Merovingian dynasty , even if not to the individual king . |
| 28 | In pre-railway times there is no record of a pub , so it seems some entrepreneur witnessed passengers standing on this blasted corner and decided he could profitably offer them shelter and spirits . |
| 29 | In August 1915 the receiver , Mr Coombes , decided he could no longer continue in charge of the club and offered to sell it to the Leeds Northern [ Rugby ] Union Club at Headingley , who were interested . |
| 30 | In 1951 Roberton decided he could no longer provide the dynamic leadership needed to maintain the choir 's international reputation , and stepped down . |