Example sentences of "man who could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time in her life that she 'd been in the company of a man who could bring her out in nervous flushes , make her heartbeat race and her stomach turn all watery , just by watching her … |
| 2 | THIEVES stole drugs from a doctor 's surgery and took them to a Middlesbrough man who could identify them with a handbook , a court heard . |
| 3 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 4 | Now she could choose second-rate happiness , cosseted and protected by a man who could give her anything she wanted , except the marquis . |
| 5 | In brief , the good leader , the man who could inspire his army , not merely he who could avoid the obvious pitfalls of generalship which Frontinus had pointed out , might be born with certain inherent qualities , but these had to be developed in the only way that could lead to success , through practice and experience . |
| 6 | The boy was present on that path , by his own statement and actions , he had , however he might regret the act afterwards , cause to be rid of a man who could accuse him . |
| 7 | To actually meet a man she did n't find boring , a man who could make her feel , and to know that nothing could ever come of it ? |
| 8 | With the fans now streaming through the turnstiles , many of them being stopped and searched before going any further , there 's a final briefing for the man who could influence their mood , referee Paul Harrison . |
| 9 | But it would be desperately hard , in the Arab world , to stand up to a man who could portray himself as a ( literally ) world-defying champion of Palestinian rights . |
| 10 | On the other hand , order out of chaos and the rebirth of a defeated nation were admirable reasons for being attracted to Fascism , yet they were n't the real ones in her case , and even if Hitler had mesmerised her very conclusively for a time , she was older and wiser now and able to revise her view of a man who could change his principles so casually in the light of expediency . |
| 11 | Gould was with the one man who could introduce him most convincingly to the alliances between geography and the native flora and fauna of the continent . |
| 12 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 13 | The sort of man who could have his pick of women , so why had n't he picked any ? |
| 14 | The brutal death of Duke John inevitably pushed Philip , his son and successor , onto the side of the one man who could help him . |
| 15 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |
| 16 | The ability of the politician to provide patronage , of whatever nature , was never more than a tool of management , and however useful it might be to the man who could supply it , patronage in itself did not remove the need for active and continuous management of the voters included within the interest . |
| 17 | That 's about him and Peter , they 're two men who could do it . |
| 18 | Seven miles off behind him , Eochaid and Ferteth and Cormac were fighting to save Perth and Scone from the army besieging them ; and here , motionless under the sun , were a hundred men who could help them . |