Example sentences of "he could [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he could walk he would be taught to ride , for horse-riding was inseparable from high social rank . |
| 2 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 3 | By the time he could toddle he was a constant worry to his mother , because he was ‘ into everything ’ and could not left alone for a minute . |
| 4 | He could think he was following the rule , when he was in fact not doing so ; the new sensation could seem to resemble the original one , when it does not resemble it in fact . |
| 5 | Each man had his everyday business in which he could feel he had his niche and even at times his indispensability . |
| 6 | so one day he could say he 'd shared |
| 7 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 8 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 9 | When he could see he would get nothing out of Dad , the visitor continued . |
| 10 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |
| 11 | The sudden glare was blinding , but when he unscrewed his eyes , he could see he was in a kind of windowless utility room . |
| 12 | Yeah well he said a thousand because he knew he could get he 'd carpet that er er for a thousand . |
| 13 | You get , I mean , Dave and Steve , alright , they 've never been my favourite people but all this pious goings-on with Dave , how much he hates the town clerk , and whatever opportunity he could get he would |
| 14 | Still worse , he could imagine he recognised a face which was n't a FAKINTIL man at all . |
| 15 | On the other hand , he could find he had been selected to unload a valuable cargo such as palm kernels . |