Example sentences of "[conj] he could be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 2 | There was a large armchair in sister 's office where he could be dumped if he collapsed during ward rounds . |
| 3 | Indeed it was to escape this commotion of the house that young Tennyson sought sanctuary and solitude in the surrounding countryside , where he could be at peace with all he beheld and find the inspiration for his poetic thoughts which he conveyed to us by his pen . |
| 4 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 5 | I do n't recommend this as a tactic unless the rest of your cavalry is already engaged , or he could be surrounded and overwhelmed by a mass of lesser troops . |
| 6 | I 'd kind of been hoping they 'd take the cuffs off me altogether by now but I suppose they 're thinking that the body in the shaft does n't prove anything by itself , and that Andy could still be dead , or he could be alive and he — or somebody else — could have kidnapped Halziel and Lingary to provide cover for me . |
| 7 | Mr Davies ' remarks can be interpreted in two ways : the public expression of a maverick opinion , in the manner of Bill Cash or Ivan Lawrence ; or he could be acting with covert government backing as a kind of stalking horse to gauge the reaction from MPs , and the public , to his suggestion . |
| 8 | If you see a picture of a golfing great with his hands well in front of the clubhead at impact , you can be sure that he is either playing the type of shot I have just mentioned or he could be squeezing the ball out of a tight lie . |
| 9 | Or he could be dead . |
| 10 | Or he could be lying in hospital , his life hanging in the balance , an electronic bleep pulsing in the hushed room . |
| 11 | He could be genuinely offering her his guidance around the exposition or he could be offering her guidance in the art of something else ! |
| 12 | Although he could be seen at rehearsals of his shows in small English towns , Tiller was an international name now . |
| 13 | Although he could be put to work on the roads , or in the gravel pits , or on a farm ( as a ‘ roundsman ’ ) , that work brought in no extra funds to his community ; many over-populated agricultural communities faced bankruptcy in consequence . |
| 14 | He added that Keith 's return to the airwaves was a one-off for the time being , although he could be on the look-out for a job when he finished work on a book . |
| 15 | ( Perhaps this was where the first shock to people in the field arose 0 as one said , ‘ we were expecting an all-singing Branson man and what we got was , although he could be very charming , a quiet , distinctly unvibrant and very determined person ’ . ) |
| 16 | Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race . |
| 17 | It will now be for the Home Secretary to decided when he 'd released although he could be transferred to a hospital in France . |
| 18 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ James Menzies began , then raised his voice so that he could be heard as well by the crowd as by the factor . |
| 19 | He knew that he could be accused of acting like some less satisfactory prime ministers in this constitutional field , that is , choosing an archbishop of his own lay power without the approval of the Church ; and he disliked that situation . |
| 20 | Prost ( right ) is worried that he could be penalised for being involved in ostensibly innocent race clashes |
| 21 | What troubles the admirer of Lewis the critic — the man who had such an eye for excellence in the poets of past ages — is that he could be capable of stanza after stanza in which the verse is deadened by flat language , repeated clumsy enjambments and sheer technical incompetence . |
| 22 | There was an eloquence about his hand movements and I realized also that he could be a dancer if he wanted to be . |
| 23 | Kuhl is a very experienced player who can control the pace of the game from midfield and Anderton has so much natural talent that he could be a match winner . |
| 24 | He knew that he could be an ice-cube at times — God knows , Beethoven , Mozart and Wagner had not been easy to live with either — and Alexia took the chill off him . |
| 25 | The case of RE S ( A Minor ) was concerned essentially with the opposition of the parents of one child to comprehensive schools ; they kept the boy , aged 11 , away from school for 18 months before the Court of Appeal confirmed that the child should be taken into care so that he could be educated . |
| 26 | It was beyond possibility that he could be recognized as a policeman , yet he had not even been given a coquettish smile . |
| 27 | The personality of the present commander , L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade , is such that he could be given command of the whole force with appropriate rank . |
| 28 | And it 's never quite fitted for me that he could be so stiff and laconic in Cabinet and yet try and be much more expansive on these set-piece occasions . |
| 29 | At forty-seven years of age , he was young enough that he could be expected to complete the work , and yet he had probably built more buildings than any of his close rivals . |
| 30 | In his anxiety on finding out that he could be deprived of his commission , Scott had rushed into print , without properly considering the effect of his letter on others . |