Example sentences of "could [verb] he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 2 | Before she could answer he grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her against him , his fingers biting cruelly into her skin . |
| 3 | Before she could answer he pulled her close again and any thoughts of answering fled as she gave herself up to the excitement . |
| 4 | I longed to prove you were unfaithful to him so I could make him throw you over — I felt like a monster with every ungenerous thought that flickered through my mind . |
| 5 | " Yet if I could make him notice me perhaps he might consider my suitability as a wife . |
| 6 | If his luck held , nothing could prevent him using it . |
| 7 | The guy we now know is called Casey stomps out of the phonebox and glares up the road in our direction so hard you could swear he sees us . |
| 8 | Fran sat down , keeping her eyes lowered so that she would n't have to meet Luke 's eyes across the table , but she could feel him watching her . |
| 9 | It was unlike any kiss that she could remember him giving her before . |
| 10 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 11 | ‘ She was dead to me , ’ he had said and she could see he meant it . |
| 12 | Carolyn agreed because she could see he meant it , although she did n't understand why . |
| 13 | I could see he thought it was serious , that she did have a case . |
| 14 | Moving back towards her , slowly , and his physical strength being the greater , he easily prised her fingers loose , and before she could recover he pushed her off balance and into a pile of hay . |
| 15 | You could hear him doing it . |
| 16 | I could tell he meant it . |
| 17 | But you say they make all the time , if you could get him to say it |
| 18 | ‘ Well , Archie has a boat , and he says he can take us out to the bird islands , and I 'm sure we could get him to take you somewhere in the Land-Rover where you can fish . |
| 19 | There would surely be lots of occasions during the day when she could get him to kiss her , she told herself . |
| 20 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 21 | Yeah , erm , if you could ask him to give me a call |
| 22 | I could ask him to contact you . |
| 23 | So you could say he recommended you to us ? |
| 24 | At first I was totally humiliated , and then I suppose in my heart , I truly believed that in that one week that he was mine , I could teach him to love me and to forget that Rachel even existed . |