Example sentences of "could he [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how could he rest with so much activity going on at UNACO headquarters ? |
| 2 | What more could he inflict on his subjects ? |
| 3 | But what could he do about it ? |
| 4 | ‘ What could he do for me that you 're not doing ? |
| 5 | Fifty-three years old when he came to the throne , and crippled by the kick of a horse in his youth , what could he do against all these turbulent and forceful lords , his brother Albany , his son Rothesay , and these Black Douglases who bore almost the prestige of a royal dynasty ? |
| 6 | Brought up on those bright flickering images of violence , could he distinguish between them and reality , she wondered . |
| 7 | What reason could he give for dismissing her anyway ? |
| 8 | Could he cope as the assistant ? |
| 9 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 10 | Nor could he think of anyone who would want to kill him . |
| 11 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 12 | He said could he speak to Mr O'Sullivan and she said no . |
| 13 | How could he explain to the old woman sitting opposite him that he wore a five thousand pound watch ? |
| 14 | What provision could he make for his family during his absence ? |
| 15 | What could he want with her ? |
| 16 | How could he pretend to be planning for Sarah Chester Fabrics ' future , and all the time plotting its demise ? |
| 17 | Said could he sleep on the sofa a couple 've nights . |
| 18 | And he took no pleasure in his food , neither could he sleep by night , nor would he lift up his eyes from the ground , nor stir out of his house , nor commune with his friends , but turned from them in silence as if the breath of his shame would taint them . |
| 19 | Only thus could he step outside of the present situation and hope to puzzle out the riddle of Zephro Carnelian — even while being forced to react predictably … |
| 20 | Nothing could he view without emotion . |
| 21 | And Dr Charles Deering , who settled there after a wandering career , said that ‘ were a naturalist in Quest of an exquisite Spot to build a Town or a City , could he meet with one that would better answer his Wishes ? ’ |
| 22 | Had he convinced himself , or could he produce at will this rapture to convince others ? |
| 23 | How could he get to prison ? |
| 24 | How could he report to his girls the tortures he knew happened in the city prison ? |
| 25 | She was encouraged , because it seemed she could rely absolutely on that devoted attention , but discouraged , too , because he looked and was so young , and what could he know of marriage and widowhood , and the things that happen to women ? |
| 26 | Could he fall in love with anyone else but Madeleine , he asked himself as he got out of bed and started to get dressed ? |
| 27 | She did , but Boswell for all the legal and social reasons in the world , could not say , nor could he expand beyond a sketchy account of her long , forlorn imprisonment . |
| 28 | ‘ Could he come with us to the West ? ’ she asks . |
| 29 | But that was wholly unreasonable for when papa had died Craig was still under suspicion of fraud , how could he come to her ? |
| 30 | But how could he come from the opposite direction ? |