Example sentences of "[pers pn] that he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound . |
| 4 | ‘ Stapleton told me that he could not allow any other man to give me the money for my divorce , ’ Mrs Lyons said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although he published much of Herbert Read , he told me that he could not cope with Read 's numerous books on Art . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station . |
| 17 | At the end of the conversation , he again asked a question or two about crimes in south-east Antrim , but Beattie once more told him that he could throw no light on them . |
| 18 | It occurred to him that he could go into any public library where they kept phone directories for the whole country and look up Alec Chipstead and see if his address was Wyvis Hall . |
| 19 | Now Mr Albert , with more ability than Hank thought such an old fogey could exhibit , had shown him that he could look quite as dignified as Captain Dawson , not a bent peasant like Grandfather Palichuk or a rugged , outdoor type like his father , but a very respectable townsman called Hank Stych . |
| 20 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 21 | It had not occurred to him that he could stand up in the pub , leave the beer half-drunk , the sandwich half-eaten , walk out into the London early evening . |
| 22 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience the Sun in the sky on the Sun , he might , even more implausibly , say : ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 23 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience other people 's pain , he might say , ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 24 | The same realization came to the King , pushed towards his precipice by Hardinge harshly telling him that he could not go on without a decision . |
| 25 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 26 | They kept on saying to him that he could do more for himself , that he was putting a lot on . |
| 27 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 28 | And er I mean I tried to indicate you know to him that he could claim against the company and get his premiums back , but unfortunately , there was no letter and no i indication , and the person was no longer with the company . |
| 29 | God , it hurt to think that their love-making meant so little to him that he could dismiss it with so little difficulty . |
| 30 | ‘ You poor thing , ’ cried Martha , and cooked meals for him that he could n't eat . |