Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merson , against my previous judgement , played better than I though he could ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We were due at Chauk , an old field town , next day and Captain Tizzard advised me to take Rachel to the hospital there , but warned me that he could not delay his sailing for more than a few hours . |
| 4 | I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound . |
| 5 | ‘ Stapleton told me that he could not allow any other man to give me the money for my divorce , ’ Mrs Lyons said . |
| 6 | Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict . |
| 7 | Although he published much of Herbert Read , he told me that he could not cope with Read 's numerous books on Art . |
| 8 | He told me that he could understand the objections to the scheme by the residents , due to the fact that the width of the road was four feet less than the width of the road in Loraine Crescent . |
| 9 | The mayor told them that he could not add to what had been said in the statement about the agreement between the three housing authorities . |
| 10 | They wanted to raise as much of this money as possible from the City ; Thornton assured them that he could fix it if they did what he said . |
| 11 | He notes that Lawrence Olivier would repeat his lines again and again until he had so trained his tongue muscles to say them that he could perform effortlessly ( p. 154 ) . |
| 12 | Scottish Sectretary , Ian lang , told them that he could n't meet their demand , although he wo n't know how much money will be allocated to councils until the budget at the end of November . |
| 13 | ‘ A young man came along on a bicycle and asked me if he could help but I refused his offer . |
| 14 | When there were guests , Joe 's position was even lower than usual ( if that was possible ) , but he always tried to help me if he could . |
| 15 | And we had a neighbour named and he 'd worked at E T N S all his life and had some influence and I mentioned it to him and he asked me , asked me if he could find me a job . |
| 16 | McEwan said : ‘ Ferguson wished me all the best and offered to help me if he could . |
| 17 | Those early years were best forgotten and he would not allow himself to dwell on them if he could possibly help it . |
| 18 | He would have crushed them if he could . |
| 19 | Instead she or he could have used material from the question to begin the essay with a generalisation ( see above , Chapter 3 , p. 66 ) , like this : Titles often serve the purpose of focusing attention on a central symbol ; and this is certainly true of " The Captain 's Doll " . |
| 20 | It was not worth the sulk and you 're ashamed of me are n't you that he could keep up for three days when required . |
| 21 | When did he ask you if he could come back ? ’ |
| 22 | After all , he might be able to buy them but he could hardly force her to wear them , could he ? |
| 23 | ‘ He still has obligations to them but he could still become a priest again . |
| 24 | But he still needed them because he could n't believe his luck either , he had the feeling that it might come crashing down round him . |
| 25 | ledgers that are now on the archives could be l placed down there and fascinated me because he could add a column of pounds , shillings and pence , he 'd take his three fingers at the bottom of the long ledger column , and as fast practically like a computer , would add to the top and then put it in pencil . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’ |
| 27 | Cornelius elbowed him where he could , but the camouflaged figure appeared quite impervious to that kind of thing . |
| 28 | He carried no weapon save his own sharp needles and scissors , but it occurred to him that he could make do with the slivers of glass from the broken sarcophagus . |
| 29 | What prompted her to invite him she could not have explained , but there was something about him — an air of loneliness , perhaps , though it was more than that — which made her suddenly want to tell him that he could rely on her friendship . |
| 30 | The military controller informed him that he could fly IFR above FL 110 , or VFR below FL055 — the Sector Safe Altitude for IFR was 7,300 feet . |