Example sentences of "and he [verb] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marshall would love to see the group enjoying Top 10 hits and he feels it could happen , if they soften their approach . |
| 2 | He looked back to the road where yet more French cavalry had appeared , and he knew it could not be long before the first French eight-pounder cannon arrived . |
| 3 | And he goes you could n't have got the odds on it like putting a pound on like , I bet you no horses finish , you know . |
| 4 | ‘ If I felt there was a part that he could play and he felt he could play it — and if it was reasonable to ask him — I would bear that in mind . |
| 5 | The feeling of crisis was growing in him and he felt he could barely breathe . |
| 6 | Charles found it a strain and was relieved when the meal was over and he felt he could decently leave . |
| 7 | At the time Mick Doyle was coach to a successful Leinster side and he believed he could do a better job than McBride . |
| 8 | He thought he could jolly well do it better than Hoomey and co : he could swim and run , at least , which was halfway there , and he bet he could learn riding quicker than them . |
| 9 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 10 | And he thought he could do without the high-interest assistance of French or Swiss bankers . |
| 11 | The car was a wide-bodied machine , and he thought he could see the unmistakable markings of a Mercedes . |
| 12 | And he said it could also lead to some impressionable youngsters following Rebecca 's example . |
| 13 | We done everything what you 're supposed to do , Roger and he said it could take days and days for you to get it right ! |
| 14 | So well Paul come out , I was talking to Steven and he said I come home last night and he said I could n't park me bloody car up cos there were cars everywhere , and they were all theirs . |
| 15 | I know , and he said you could sell things as well now . |
| 16 | I asked the man who owns it and he said you could have the Headmaster 's Study . ’ |
| 17 | And he said he could no longer tolerate the ‘ gag and straitjacket . ’ |
| 18 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 19 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 20 | I asked him why , and he said he could n't find any other way to show respect for that commodity . |
| 21 | Allen wondered what comedy they could get up to in a hotel room , and he decided they could smash the place up , with everything falling apart around them . |
| 22 | And he found he could n't handle it . |
| 23 | He knew as he could come to me er he used to bring me lock keys of all sorts and er he could get the castings or the patterns or what it is like that and he knows I could fashion them to fit the lock and all that sort of thin and we were very |
| 24 | He wanted his wife and child back , and he reckoned he could tough it out longer than she could . |