Example sentences of "he could [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it is inconceivable that he could successfully shepherd nervous unionists through new talks with their nationalist counterparts and Dublin , equally his head can not be sacrificed in a Labour-Unionist deal to take Neil Kinnock to Downing Street . |
| 2 | The intention of the Old Testament law on usury , for example , was to make a man use his good fortune to help tide his less fortunate neighbour over a bad patch until he could again become self-sufficient . |
| 3 | He could also go broke — last year , farm incomes fell by 25 per cent . |
| 4 | By publicly opposing the recourse to a notorious Vichyite , he could also crystallize pro-Gaullist feeling within the French Resistance . |
| 5 | He could already hear distant sounds . |
| 6 | There were two large exercise courts in the house , where he could either practise alone or with others , depending on his schedule for forthcoming performances . |
| 7 | There were two options : he could either take unilateral measures to challenge US hegemony or he could seek alternative partners with a common interest in breaking down hegemonic control . |
| 8 | If Imran sows the seeds of a five-man Pakistan attack capable , in years to come , of dismissing sides consistently within 50 overs , he could easily revolutionise future World cups — certainly in Australia . |
| 9 | He could distinctly taste cold tea . |
| 10 | But although he could see areas of hewn stonework that seemed to close him in , and although he could certainly see barred windows through which light streamed , there were no gaolers , and there were no other prisoners . |
| 11 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 12 | It was Septimus Coffin 's weakness that , after a lifetime of schoolmastering , he could never leave alone the flat , meaningless cliche . |
| 13 | He could never feel sure that he was being accepted . ’ |
| 14 | He could never get tired of the tube . |
| 15 | On his doctor 's orders the Eliots went to Worthing in January , but the weather there was almost as bad for his emphysema , and he could only manage short walks along the seafront . |
| 16 | More important , he could only speak Yiddish and thus was at a great disadvantage in terms of communicating with Russian travel-agents and officials . |
| 17 | Eventually , he was too weak to make his way to the stream of water and , when he had sparingly drunk the supply he had collected in his flask , he could only lie still on the rough rock where he had finally stumbled and fallen . |
| 18 | He could only get temporary relief from certain drugs and it was believed that the same drug contributed to the hardening of the liver which led to his death . |
| 19 | Sniffing the moist morning air , he fancied he could still detect sickly traces of the opium smoked by his guest , and his scowl deepened . |
| 20 | His teachers were suspicious of his popularity , annoyed by his lack of interest in academic work and infuriated that he could still achieve high marks in examinations . |
| 21 | He could hardly go empty-handed , and the benefits of the move had been pointed out to him often . |
| 22 | Simon knew that live music was not Yorick 's forte , but he could hardly go wrong before a small and carefully chosen audience , especially if the bar prices were heavily subsidized : drinks were free for anyone equipped with a press card . |
| 23 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 24 | The big dog was so excited he could hardly stand still . |
| 25 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |