Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 2 | He referred Dawn to a neurosurgeon , who promised that he could operate to cure the spasticity which kept causing her muscles to tense up involuntarily . |
| 3 | Karrimor 's project development engineer demonstrated that he could do shoulder high kicks just as easily wearing with its 20kg load as without . |
| 4 | James maintained that he could issue dispensations from the provisions of this Act by the royal prerogative , an opinion which was upheld by the judges in the test case of Godden v. Hales in June 1686 , although it required a purge of the judicial bench to achieve a verdict favourable to the Crown . |
| 5 | Hope had written an evasive reply which he would frank and give to George Wood to post for him but he doubted that he could deter him for much longer . |
| 6 | After a closer inspection of the young man , I doubted that he could help anyone . |
| 7 | About 12 months ago Innes mentioned that he could be interested in a rugby league offer after the World Cup , and so it was not a surprise that he was tagged by the cheque-book boys in Britain . |
| 8 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 9 | He found that he could make a speech — that is , he could think on his feet , and not be at a loss for words . |
| 10 | He found that he could pay a compliment to Charles Raven , from whom he was so sadly sundered in spirit , for his book on Religion and Science . |
| 11 | The King therefore saw Samuel before Baldwin ; and Samuel gave the advice which the Sovereign wanted to hear , namely that if MacDonald proved unable to carry his Cabinet , the best solution to the crisis would be a National Government , led by MacDonald , ‘ unless he found that he could not carry with him a sufficient number of his colleagues ’ . |
| 12 | He found that he could n't go out with the lads anymore , and he felt he 'd lost his happy-go-lucky side . |
| 13 | He found that he could direct a free horse to choose the correct feed bucket — the one containing oats whilst the others were empty — by visualising in his own mind the oats lying in the bottom of the bucket . |
| 14 | He did manage to establish the English in a ring of garrisons in southern Scotland , but — like Edward I before him — he found that he could not extend his grip in any effective way into northern Scotland beyond the Tay ; and his southern castles could be recaptured . |
| 15 | One week before attending the special clinic , Jonathan had noticed some staining of his underpants and on examining his penis , not a thing he was in the habit of doing , he found that he could express a little clear mucoid discharge from it . |
| 16 | When he found that he could demonstrate some discharge in the early mornings e was convinced that his infection had returned , not realizing that the majority of males can produce a certain amount of mucus at the urethral meatus in the morning if they try . |
| 17 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |
| 18 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 19 | He found that he could n't remain seated while she was striding to and fro across the office . |
| 20 | He found that he could calculate , using a fixed relative stride length divided by leg length , the running speed of any animal , past or present . |
| 21 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 22 | Paul found that he could not stay with her at present ; he excused himself , got up from the table , fetched his hat and a stout stick , and went out into the day . |
| 23 | In one short lesson , then , Burton found that he could turn a decent offer of £10 into a ‘ fortune ’ of £30 a week . |
| 24 | Working alongside other pioneers he was first spontaneously discovering new possibilities in camera technique and then he found that he could equally spontaneously draw on his experiences and his own values . |
| 25 | Gould found that he could put those skills to work via the Labour Party — ‘ If the metal shop at school was hell on earth , distributing leaflets and canvassing was heaven , ’ he says . |
| 26 | He found that he could sit right among them , and equipped with faster film , a special lens , and a waterproof housing for the camera , the results continued to improve . |
| 27 | William claimed that Richard cheated by plunging his sword into William 's horse when he found that he could not win by fair means . |
| 28 | In 1820 , when the Constitution of 1812 was in force , the king found that he could not change the Captain General of New Castile on his own order . |
| 29 | Rostov tried to sit up and found that he could not . |
| 30 | Eyes wide with surprise , he found that he could n't draw another breath , though the growing pain forced him to try . |