Example sentences of "he could [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 2 | He could borrow other verses in return . |
| 3 | He never committed an army to the field without being sure that he could bring overwhelming force to bear and never fought a battle without being sure he could win it . |
| 4 | Let us look at a holy man in action , and the means by which he could exercise local power in a society where constitutionalism by no means ruled . |
| 5 | He found that he could sit right among them , and equipped with faster film , a special lens , and a waterproof housing for the camera , the results continued to improve . |
| 6 | Suddenly he remembered his wish in Basil Hallward 's house … his wish that he could stay young , but the picture could grow old . |
| 7 | However , in Lee v. Butler he was a ‘ buyer ’ in possession of the goods and thus , although he was not the owner , he could pass good title to an innocent purchaser ( Factors Act , section 9 , see Chapter 5 above ) . |
| 8 | Rubbing out Kylie meant , of course , that he could escort other women , without being accused of being unfaithful . |
| 9 | If he could confront physical danger and win he could go to bed feeling that he had achieved something with his day . |
| 10 | And even then he could appear awkward . |
| 11 | Punctilious and at times pedantic , he could appear abrupt and unfriendly . |
| 12 | He was a most gentle person and yet he could appear implacable . |
| 13 | Doubtless a rich merchant escaping with as much treasure as he could lay frantic hands on . |
| 14 | Pearson hoped that the sense of authenticity in his films would ‘ carry feeling and understanding to an audience , ’ but it was odd to imagine he could achieve genuine popularity by avoiding suspense and dramatic conflict . |
| 15 | He could tell endless tales , normally with himself as the butt . |
| 16 | He could think quick enough when he had to . |
| 17 | Greatrakes , however , found he could cure advanced scrofula , and soon extended his treatment to dropsy , ague , rheumatism and many other ailments . |
| 18 | Getting him to bed in the evening was almost impossible , and when he was forced to do something he did not want to do he could throw violent tantrums . |
| 19 | Sam thought for a second he could smell damp straw — ’ … and carried many miles to a place they have never seen before and from which they can never return . |
| 20 | For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral . |
| 21 | By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code . |
| 22 | He was happiest at the field meetings of natural history societies and the subsequent festivities , where he could give free rein to his talents as a ballad singer and after-dinner speaker . |
| 23 | Now that he was away from his father , he could give full rein to his imagination as to what Gareth Davis was doing at Thorsbury . |
| 24 | Currently a ‘ non-executive director for hire ’ , he gave up his partnership at Arthur Young in 1987 so that he could devote adequate time to his role as chairman of the Eurogroup for Animal Welfare . |
| 25 | Yet , it was his originality that he could represent prevailing moods , drawing together themes in striking images and captions , thereby intensifying the attitudes from which his an emerged . |
| 26 | He was told he could suffer permanent damage to his vocal cords if he went ahead with the shows at Birmingham 's National Exhibition Centre . |
| 27 | His new friends urged him to go to France , where he could do effective political work among the thousands of Vietnamese the war had brought to Europe to fight as soldiers , in the labour corps , and as civilian employees replacing the French who were fighting . |
| 28 | There he could entertain certain people who might be useful — people with information to give but who were afraid to be seen entering a barracks or Dublin Castle … . |
| 29 | He could drink good wine ; eat French food superlatively cooked , and apparently available in abundance ; be waited upon as he had been waited upon in the old days before the war , by a succession of polite , quiet , efficient , well-trained servants , all of whom were Arab , all of whom spoke perfect French . |
| 30 | He could drink copious amounts of beer without ill effect . |