Example sentences of "he could [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he ‘ found his car he sat behind the wheel , gripping it so tight he could 've snapped it . |
| 2 | This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction . |
| 3 | He was being tortured by the Hunters , and there was nothing he could do to stop it . |
| 4 | The object he had tripped over was the pistol ; it was so heavy that it was all he could do to raise it . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course the world was affronted ’ , but , now again surrounded by ‘ devoted thought and care ’ , he could afford to ignore it . |
| 6 | He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do . |
| 7 | In fact , he was able to take the morning coach to Holborn and walk the brief distance to Clerkenwell , but the fare troubled him and he did not know how long he could afford to pay it . |
| 8 | It would be their horse , and he could learn to ride it — in the evenings perhaps , when there was nobody about . |
| 9 | It was the first obstacle in his route from Al Mansuriyah to Qara Tappah , and he could have ignored it , simply carried on , but that was not his way . |
| 10 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 11 | At the same time he is blamed for allowing the incident to arise when it is usually inconceivable that he could have prevented it . |
| 12 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 13 | It was as if that was the only emotion Jack allowed himself , the only time he let down his guard , and she sensed that it was almost involuntary and if he could have prevented it he would have done . |
| 14 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know how he could have done it , but where the hell else could he be ? ’ |
| 16 | He could have done it , Dexter saw suddenly . |
| 17 | ‘ He could have done it beforehand when we met for drinks and everyone 's attention was on Mrs Figgis-Hewett , ’ said Angelina , albeit with a feeling of disloyalty to a fellow female . |
| 18 | But I still do n't see how he could have done it . ’ |
| 19 | I thought , well he could have done it |
| 20 | No , it 's that he , he goes , if I had the other one he could have done it there and then on the computer . |
| 21 | Or he could have flown it around in the wastes of ice where Shackleton lost the Endurance . |
| 22 | I think he could have said it but that he would n't have . |
| 23 | But how on earth could he say that , any more than he could have said it to Miss Trimm ? |
| 24 | He could have denied it , he could have been positive , but all he did was tell me he loved me , that it did n't matter . |
| 25 | The riding apart , he could have faced it more sensibly , but with the fear of failing there and the strange , intangible instinct he felt that he was altogether on foreign territory attempting the business at all , he felt more and more miserable as the day approached . |
| 26 | He could have put it more strongly . |
| 27 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 28 | And he could have put it down while he was here . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose he could have folded it and used it as a spill to get a light from the pilot on the gas water heater . ’ |
| 30 | He may have survived if only he could have found it . |