Example sentences of "he could come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could come up here every day ! |
| 2 | ‘ I asked him to play the most tortured , painful lead possible — the most horrible thing he could come up with ! ’ laughs Matthew . |
| 3 | The only disadvantage of the job that he could come up with was the ‘ vulture capitalist ’ image with which he is clearly uncomfortable . |
| 4 | He sought desperately for other examples , but the best he could come up with was , ‘ Things . ’ |
| 5 | She did n't offer her own opinion , not because she thought Paul 's design was necessarily as bad as Stephen claimed , but because she had a hunch that , in time , he could come up with something really sensational instead of merely pedestrian . |
| 6 | Before he could come up with a satisfactory formulation they were joined by Georgina , the chairman 's daughter by his first marriage . |
| 7 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 8 | Flavius the Noseless had booked two weeks in Greece for his holidays , so whilst there he dropped in on Archimedes and asked if he could come up with anything . |
| 9 | There was a possibility that a recording of his might be used as theme music for a commercial — if he could come up to London in the near future this could be discussed . |
| 10 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 11 | If we both go , he could come here . |
| 12 | He could come on very strong . |
| 13 | There were some weekends when he would phone me up and ask if he could come round because he 'd thought of something new for me to do , and he 'd jump into his car and come all the way just to give me a new inflection on a word ! ’ |
| 14 | She rather gathered that what Travis was really asking was if he could come round to her flat and chat a few hours away about Rosemary . |
| 15 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 16 | as though there had never been another world , and when a boy she knew , who lived in Doncaster , asked if he could come over and take her out , she refused him , although she liked him , because she knew that she could not bear to allow herself to emerge . |
| 17 | I did n't know that until Ben phoned this week and asked whether he could come over . ’ |
| 18 | In a panic I phoned tom to ask if he could come home early as I wanted to discuss Peter with him before the boy got home . |
| 19 | If he 's on a hot streak he could come home in twenty-nine . ’ |
| 20 | No , here he must remain until he could come forth vindicated . |
| 21 | He could come out and jump well over seven metres on no training at all . |
| 22 | He was being told in no uncertain terms that he could come out of all this as the loving , caring father who would do anything to keep his daughter 's reputation ; who welcomed her choice of husband with open arms ; who would not bow down in the face of adversity , but would rise up and conquer it . |
| 23 | When I told him it was only for children who had something wrong with them , he said he was going to try to break his leg so he could come along ! ’ |
| 24 | Well , she 's still not really conscious , but he could come in for a minute , could n't he ? ’ |
| 25 | He could come back later , but tomorrow … |
| 26 | When did he ask you if he could come back ? ’ |
| 27 | Later , he could come back and do the job properly . |
| 28 | He exuded sympathy and concern , urged Amiss to take as much time off as he felt necessary , assured him he would be given sick pay and that his job would be secure , and only after a long argument agreed very reluctantly that he could come back on duty the following day . |
| 29 | If he could do this then surely he could come down from the cross and save himself . |
| 30 | No you do n't forget Helen he could come down |