Example sentences of "he could [adv] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out in his Blackheath ranch he could even now be interviewing an empty-handed burglar , plus whoever dared turn up from Vinnie 's gang . |
| 2 | GUIL : He could n't even be sure of mixing us up . |
| 3 | It did n't take her long to realise that he could n't really be spending much time here . |
| 4 | He could n't still be there , hiding in the church , knife in hand . |
| 5 | Not only throughout Britain , but in many parts of Europe and in the New World , it was widely accepted that if a person succeeded in erecting a dwelling on common or waste land between sunset and sunrise and lighting a fire in it he could not lawfully be dispossessed . |
| 6 | He started well by making it clear to a shocked and protesting Curzon that he could not again be Foreign Secretary . |
| 7 | Nixon , one of the fiercest anti-Communists and " cold warriors " of the 1940s and 1950s , knew that he could not easily be accused of being " soft " on communism when he tried to lessen tension with Russia and with Communist China . |
| 8 | What Gandalf said to Frodo at the start , we should realise , was that he might be able to give the Ring away or destroy it , though only with a struggle ; he could not however be made to want to do so ( except by some kind of dangerous thought-control ) . |
| 9 | Wainfleet protested that he could not fairly be accused of wasting police time with his practical joke because he had not anticipated the police being informed . |
| 10 | In any case he could not now be trusted with clients . |
| 11 | He could not possibly be on steroids : he is too damn skinny . |
| 12 | He could not possibly be alive . |
| 13 | He had a thick crop of wiry hair the colour of good toffee , and heavy eyelashes many shades darker , as lavish as on a Jersey cow , fringing golden-brown eyes of such steady and limpid sincerity that she felt certain he could not possibly be just what he seemed . |
| 14 | You could choose the Emperor as your General , but he could equally well be one of the Elector Counts , the Reiksmarshall of the Empire , or even a powerful Burgomeister from one of the City States . |
| 15 | It is believed he thought he could no longer be charged over the under-age sex given the time that had elapsed . |
| 16 | He could no longer be controlled ; even chains were useless , he had often been fettered and chained up , but he had snapped his chains and broken the fetters . |
| 17 | It was almost as if they considered him to be as much a victim of his government as they were of theirs , as if he could no more be held responsible for Reagan 's actions than they could for Gaddafi 's . |
| 18 | Once having looked , he could never again be unaware . |
| 19 | If a child must face a prolonged period of hospitalisation , say , he could relatively easily be prepared in advance with information about what will take place , and allowed to experience graded separations in happy circumstances , such as overnight stays with friends . |
| 20 | In those days a man would run in about half past eleven at night and he could very well be on an early shift the next day . |