Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 2 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 3 | He seemed to think he could carry her off like this , and get away with it . |
| 4 | He seemed to think he could walk in and out of her life at will , just as it suited him . |
| 5 | By the time the snow began to thaw he could walk gingerly on his injured ankle and when aid arrived at the farm in the form of Tom 's snow-plough , with Tom guiding the plough and Carrie riding the horse , Seb was standing in the farmyard to greet them . |
| 6 | But when he had fought back the overwhelming urge to ring the police and have criminal charges brought against his secretary , he had realised he could use this to his advantage . |
| 7 | Afterwards the clergyman had said he could feel the devils leaving the body of the afflicted person , like an electrical current seemingly . |
| 8 | Ewen Mackay had said he could sleep on his boat , but he had made no move to invite Parsons to share it with him . |
| 9 | Mrs Beavis had said he could use the bed at nights , if he wanted , but he 'd said no , he did n't want three rooms to look after , he was n't as domesticated as that . |
| 10 | After 1976 and a disastrous Lotus season ( a mere 29 points ) , Ronnie had thought he could do better at Tyrrell , though once again fate was to forestall his ambitions . |
| 11 | She had thought he could do nothing more to her , but he had . |
| 12 | On his release he had come straight-up to Moila , and by last weekend — it was possibly true enough — had not heard of his parents ' departure , but had thought he could go straight home . |
| 13 | He had thought he could fly , if he willed it enough . |
| 14 | He had thought he could look at a picture of Wyvis Hall , a photograph he had taken himself with a cheap camera Zosie had stolen , with equanimity and even a rueful amusement , but it appeared he could not . |
| 15 | He said it was to prevent the priest being mixed up , it was an opportunity to a new priest to come in and sort of if it had become he could establish groups . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , he had proved he could stay up with the leaders , and he went to South Africa in March in good spirits . |
| 17 | It would have been a long story , the warming of friendship and respect between the barrel-chested Iraqi Colonel and the young man from England who had proved he could stalk and kill . |
| 18 | In that moment , he had known he could trust her — with his very life , as it were . |
| 19 | If divine omnipotence had been really displayed , the deity would have had to create those other worlds that Bruno 's scholastic predecessors had acknowledged He could have ( but actually had not ) made . |
| 20 | ‘ The other man had pretended he could use it , but he could not . |
| 21 | It follows that if the buyer had paid he could have recovered that money . |
| 22 | I enquired if he had volunteered for Pathfinders , to which he replied that he had thought about it , I told him if he wanted to come he could join my squadron . |
| 23 | He had made money from his movie The Wild Angels and now he wanted to prove he could do something worthwhile . |