Example sentences of "he [verb] he could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised he could make a lot of money and a name for himself if he were to act swiftly and produce his maps before Green had time to complete his own . |
| 2 | ‘ What help he thinks he could give , I ca n't imagine . |
| 3 | However , he will not run for office if he thinks he could lose . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He found he could dowse the ‘ charge ’ in a stone , the wavelength being in the radio section of the electromagnetic spectrum , that this became fixed by electromagnetism , and that the germination of plants could be affected if they are on one of the ‘ charge lines ’ . |
| 6 | By half emptying one of the sacks onto the floor of the van he found he could drag it with his right hand and hold onto the box with his left . |
| 7 | He would never be able to read Abul Ismail , as he found he could decipher so many . |
| 8 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 9 | He says he could mean patients wo n't have any visitors . |
| 10 | And er he , of course with him being a blacksmith , he could get a job anywhere in America , he says he could leave a town tonight and land in another town , he says and he could be sure of getting a job with him being a blacksmith . |
| 11 | She almost felt sympathy for Marc if he imagined he could change what was deeply ingrained in Peter 's nature . |
| 12 | He needed a bath and quickly , he imagined he could smell smoke and the sour stench of sweat from his skin . |
| 13 | Culley 's teeth ached slightly along the line of the gum ; he imagined he could feel the air trickling through his lungs like snow-melt in a delta . |
| 14 | He imagined he could act like this . |
| 15 | He felt an urge to reach out and rescue some of the sheets of paper on which he imagined he could see writing , but the heat was extreme . |
| 16 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 17 | The court heard that Jones scoured the Penrhys estate after the burglary and took his friends to Mr Penrose 's house because he believed he could lead them to the culprits . |
| 18 | Not only did he see no advantage in change , he believed he could prevent it indefinitely . |
| 19 | At the time Mick Doyle was coach to a successful Leinster side and he believed he could do a better job than McBride . |
| 20 | Colours also may get distorted as the eye lens gets yellower with age ; in some pictures of Mulready he believed he could demonstrate this defect . |
| 21 | Mr Mobutu said on Thursday he believed he could produce an agreement this month , after Mr Savimbi had had a week of talks with US officials , including 30 minutes with President Bush , and agreed to accept Mr Mobutu as mediator between his Unita guerrilla organisation and the Luanda government . |
| 22 | A detective-sergeant told Belfast Magistrate 's Court that when Hill was formally charged he replied ‘ no ’ to all four charges , but he said he believed he could connect the accused to the offences . |
| 23 | The detective chief-inspector said he believed he could connect the accused to the charges . |
| 24 | The RUC officer said he believed he could connect the accused with the charges . |
| 25 | Now , on this last day of his life , he showed he could stand the pain no more . |
| 26 | Jed had made his selection ; three toys stood out on their own in the middle of the floor , these being the ones that he reckoned he could do without . |
| 27 | I believe he sensed he could unleash a drive in me that could propel him to recognition . |
| 28 | But even as he prayed he could hear the voice of William 's grandad berating him from under the lid of the closed coffin . |
| 29 | He fancied he could see a lower section at one end of the piled furniture where a horse might be able to jump the obstruction . |
| 30 | He fancied he could hear the thing moving about outside and he was glad that the door was locked . |