Example sentences of "[conj] he could [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On sunny days , when she had washed and dressed him , his chair would be taken out and placed under the Stocks Tree where he could watch the people come and go . |
| 2 | A man was sitting at an open window where he could watch the road . |
| 3 | He crossed over to the side wall where he could watch the entrance while he opened one of the crates . |
| 4 | When he reached an angle where he could watch the shop-front without being seen from inside it he stopped and consulted his guide book again . |
| 5 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 6 | Putting as much professional coolness into her voice as she could muster , she proceeded to do so , leading him into the side ward , where he could study the patient for himself . |
| 7 | Harry withdrew inch by inch along the dim passageway to the end , where he could have the wall on two sides of him , and flattened himself into the last shallow embrasure , beneath the last curved corbel . |
| 8 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 9 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 10 | Either he could hang about drinking and flirting and achieve nothing , with the risk of embarrassment if Fedorov arrived , or he could try the direct approach . |
| 11 | Or he could jettison the myth and run in the second ballot as the leader of the majority , which was what he had in effect been since October 1962 . |
| 12 | Or he could follow the Germans , who have duly provided him with an excuse for higher base rates at next week 's party conference — but have also made it abundantly clear that the Bundesbank is the dominant monetary authority in Europe , and our much-vaunted independence is so much poppy-cock . |
| 13 | Now this was strange , Twoflower realised , because although he could read the message the actual letters were completely unknown to him . |
| 14 | He rang Davidson to confirm that he could make the eight a. m. appointment . |
| 15 | Even Denis Healey knew that he could make the pips squeak only after the mortgage has been paid . |
| 16 | Buster felt that he could make the vehicle — which was a very dismal thing to look at — a real sort of Bonny and Clyde affair . |
| 17 | The amnesty is particularly good news for Houghton , who picked up his second yellow card of the qualifying tournament in Malta last month and feared that he could miss the opening game in Italy . |
| 18 | The amnesty is particularly good news for Houghton , who picked up his second yellow card of the qualifying tournament in Malta last month and feared that he could miss the opening game in Italy . |
| 19 | Did he think he was so important that he could finish the cottage in his own sweet time ? |
| 20 | The result was that after two years out of racing , Niki asked Ron Dennis to give him a private test — mainly to assure himself that he had not lost his skill and that he could face the new world of FI wing cars , quicker and much more road-adhering than the old generation . |
| 21 | The attendant watched her , hoping that she would get a little closer to the picture , so that he could relieve the boredom of his long day by telling her to stand back . |
| 22 | And now , for the first time , he thought that he could smell the North Sea , that potent but half-illusory tang evoking nostalgic memories of childhood holidays , of solitary adolescent walks as he struggled with his first poems , of his aunt 's tall figure at his side , binoculars round her neck , striding towards the haunts of her beloved birds . |
| 23 | The Dragoon General seized the Colonel 's uniform jacket and dragged the man close so that he could smell the General 's garlic and brandy flavoured breath . |
| 24 | But he was still so close that he could smell the perfume of patchouli on the corpse 's moustache . |
| 25 | Mingled with the brimstone smell of burned powder he fancied that he could smell the perfume of roses from the Residency garden , pruned this year by musket fire . |
| 26 | The woman came down the remaining stairs and stood before Lee , so close that he could smell the perfume — expensive and subtle — off her . |
| 27 | If Law had a political model , then it must have been Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a fellow Scot who had shown that an ordinary man could hold the highest office without discredit and that he could beat the clever and the politically sophisticated at their own game . |
| 28 | It was won because Labour was the party of high taxation , because the Conservative Party presented an alternative , and because most electors neither admired Mr Kinnock nor believed that he could deliver the promises that he was making . |
| 29 | The fact that he could terminate the hiring meant that he was under no commitment to acquire ownership of the goods . |
| 30 | 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 . |