Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since he had no tape measure he could only estimate , by a very rough and ready method , that Lee being the thinnest was the only one to qualify . |
| 2 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 3 | During debates on gravel extraction he could be seen flicking through its pages . |
| 4 | During debates on gravel extraction he could be seen flicking through its pages . |
| 5 | Through the side window he could see his grey garments and underwear hanging on a small washing line outside . |
| 6 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 7 | No , no the shop could use it then as a as a loss leader he could make say , a penny on it an ge so if he buys it at , you 're buying what , thirty five ? |
| 8 | From the sitting room he could still hear Plummer speaking . |
| 9 | through drink he could of been a really brilliant football player he could of made a lot of money and |
| 10 | Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard . |
| 11 | If the horse recovers well from his Longchamp experience he could head for the Japan Cup , for which he was entered yesterday . |
| 12 | The pilot stated that as the aircraft rose above the treeline , at about 150 feet above the ground it involuntarily banked to the right , and despite maintaining the climb speed he could not prevent the roll to the right — which continued past ninety degrees of bank . |
| 13 | It was warm under the skin rugs , and now that Madra had taken off most of her winter clothing he could feel the shape of her curved next to him . |
| 14 | From his vantage point he could see vehicles approaching from the north a good way off . |
| 15 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 16 | In blurred outline through the fine mesh of his muslin mosquito net he could see the dark shape of the Annamese peasant girl stretched naked on his bed . |
| 17 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 18 | At the edge of his flashlight beam he could see the dampened flowers , flattened now by the steady fall of rain . |
| 19 | that 's why , that 's so that we can give the shop his control of supply which actually like my da , you 're saying if it was a computer disc supplier he could have next day delivery to him and then next day delivery to my man . |
| 20 | ‘ So when he signs his consent form he could be signing his own death-warrant . |
| 21 | When he collapsed with brain damage during the world super-middleweight title fight he could so easily have died . |
| 22 | At the Whitechapel Art Gallery he could see the American abstract Impressionists whose work provided in paint what be-bop and Beat aimed for in music and words . |
| 23 | He gives me the address of a boarding house he could stay at in Earls Court . |
| 24 | When he came in to put some logs on the sitting-room fire he could not restrain a sob , kneeling there with his back to the coffee-table . |
| 25 | In the early morning light he could see that she wore a black cape over a dark red dress . |
| 26 | Some soup or little homemade cakes , convinced that as a grass widower he could n't cope . |
| 27 | Inside , a bowl of red roses wilted under the lights of a makeshift television studio he could not face . |
| 28 | Even in his suicide note he could n't bear to tell me . |
| 29 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 30 | But to do the miller justice he could with almost equal truth reply : ‘ Yes , maybe . |