Example sentences of "he could [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 61 | He could see them coming out under the hand : And close your eyes with holy dread . |
| 62 | True , there was a mixed Italian and German team climbing not far away , heading for the Traverse of the Gods ; he could see them but for some reason they could n't see him . |
| 63 | ‘ Go on then , ’ he could see them thinking , ‘ be a devil ! ’ |
| 64 | He could see them all far enough now . |
| 65 | Duncan and Myeloski sat on his right side , near the bedhead so that he could see them without having to turn his head . |
| 66 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 67 | As Kim tugged T'ai Cho around the corner he could see them coming down the corridor , not forty ch'i away . |
| 68 | He could see them all sitting there , earphones on their heads , giggling themselves silly at his expense . |
| 69 | He watched Geraci walk all the way down the corridor before going back to his office , leaving the connecting door open so that if anyone came in he could see them reflected on Pertini 's portrait . |
| 70 | He watched Geraci walk all the way down the corridor before going back to his office , leaving the connecting door open so that if anyone came in he could see them reflected in Pertinis portrait . |
| 71 | He could see them in chains , walking in bloodied battle armour through the ancient corridors . |
| 72 | Mr Culliford says a refund would help pay for his relatives to fly to England , so he could see them before he dies . |
| 73 | Not thinking he could see them , but thinking he would see something . |
| 74 | He could see them himself , for that matter , but he wondered how she could . |
| 75 | They did n't want to surround him just there and then where he could see them . |
| 76 | He could see they regarded Eloise as overreacting . |
| 77 | Moi , " he knew from his reading , was an Annamese term derived from the Chinese word for " savage , " and looking at the dark-skinned , low-browed men , he could see they were of a different racial stock from the Annamese ; they wore only breechclouts that left their haunches naked and they grinned and chattered animatedly in their own language as they moved quickly about their work . |
| 78 | He could see they were surprised that he 'd latched on to them , but it did n't matter . |
| 79 | Another Orton diary entry referred to a man complaining about the TV show being a ‘ fake ’ — presumably because he could see they worked from scripts . |
| 80 | If someone would come he could ask them to check the brake on the van . |
| 81 | One of the bigger vans made an effective screen at the end of a line of the unmarked pool cars , meaning that he could look them over without being seen from the main building . |
| 82 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 83 | Steven decided that if he could n't come up with a definitive artistic statement to impress the grown-ups , then at least he could impress them with the definitive bank statement . |
| 84 | He wondered if he could get them to pay the mortgage . |
| 85 | Lloyds Bank released the bills back to him so that he could sell them and thereby obtain the money to pay off the loan from the Bank . |
| 86 | He had devised a purely verbal test of his daughters ' love , and while a devotee of Practical Criticism could soon have told him what was wrong with Goneril and Regan from their speeches alone , there was apparently no way in which he could discriminate them from Cordelia . |
| 87 | The result of this decision was that not only was the minor under no obligation to pay for the waistcoats but also , apparently , he could keep them ! |
| 88 | Its chairman , David Murray , wrote to Mr Gillespie saying that instead of handing over the shares on the previously agreed dates , he could keep them until he was 65 in 1991 , when they would be transferred to MIH in one lump . |
| 89 | He could hear them talking downstairs , not what they were saying , just their voices . |
| 90 | And then he could hear Them calling again … . |