Example sentences of "he could [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could retain their features in his mind and produce a lifelike sketch from memory . |
| 2 | A person would be an active agent in deciding between two or more options when he could anticipate their potential existence and when , in doing so , he drew upon his previous experience and his previously formed values and interests to guide his judgement . |
| 3 | But I she 'd had to lend Ian some money the week before last so so he could do their pocket money . |
| 4 | What would they say if he were to ask Sir Philip if he could marry their daughter ? |
| 5 | Her breasts were taut against his palms and he could feel their rise and fall as her breathing quickened . |
| 6 | He could recognize their trades from the clothes they were wearing — dyers , carpenters , wheelwrights , masons , stevedores up from the docks , and several cordwainers : the spikes in their hands looked like daggers . |
| 7 | He could sense their apathy and hopelessness as he passed . |
| 8 | By simplifying France 's ridiculously complex social-security arrangements , which encompass ( on one estimate ) 538 distinct systems , he could make their cost more transparent and thus easier to control . |
| 9 | The convener who replaced Clasper , for example , at the Merseyside plant , was elected because he had stressed to the union membership that the best way he could serve their interest was to help make sure that the Merseyside plant became the most efficient plant in Europe . |
| 10 | The shop steward then stood up and asked whether the management would be so kind as to tell him which men would be involved so that he could inform their wives now . ’ |
| 11 | Huxley joined the evolutionists because he could use their theory to make a general point about the need for a naturalistic methodology in the life sciences as an essential prelude to modernization . |
| 12 | Now he would have even more cause to think he could use their past acquaintance as an excuse to be familiar with her . |
| 13 | One by one , they were taken out by the instructor so he could assess their skill and how much of the tuition we had taken in . |
| 14 | At the end of the lesson , John asked if he could take their working home . |
| 15 | The named ones were apparently the most interesting and valuable , and he could see their charm , the fresh colours and glazes . |
| 16 | He could see their faces , and Miguelito was n't one of them . |
| 17 | Darkness was falling and the huge pane of glass was a black rectangle in which he could see their faces reflected , like the gaunt , disembodied heads of night travellers in a lighted railway carriage . |
| 18 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 19 | He could see their pale faces watching Jekub lurch towards them . |
| 20 | Though faint and far off , her words suddenly became clear to him and he could understand their meaning . |
| 21 | Even when he could overcome their resistance , he could not trust his military and civilian bureaucracies to put his policies into operation in the manner that he desired . |
| 22 | His whole professional life brought him into contact with the stories of pagan heroes , Englishmen or Norsemen or Goths ; more than anyone he could appreciate their sterling qualities . |
| 23 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 24 | as if he could arrest their development at that stage , and set them working like articulated models in a shop window , mechanically repeating the same gestures — Mrs Mallory always pouring out a cup of tea with a warm , motherly smile ; Mr Mallory always easing himself blissfully into his chair ; Patricia always reaching for the aspirins with womanly resignation , Clare always shyly yielding to the one good-night embrace … |