Example sentences of "he [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | George was a quick thinker so always did the introducing and all of the talking , but George did not talk about himself — he told of how Lennie was as strong as a bull and how he could buck barley all day . |
| 32 | Two years ago few people thought he could cajole the island 's two separate tribes — sprung from Protestant planters on the one side and Catholic Gaels on the other — into meeting at all . |
| 33 | He could Batty , he could Strachan , he could McAllister , and a great many other things . |
| 34 | He could sluice himself , shuddering , take off his clothes and scrub them on a stone kerb , then hang them one by one out of the window . |
| 35 | There were connections there , safe houses where he could hole up for a week or more , while his American friends made arrangements to get him out of the country and into free Europe . |
| 36 | One horseman revealed that he could jade a horse standing , say , on the sandy apron outside an Inn simply by walking round him and unobtrusively dropping one of the obnoxious powders in the sand , especially in front of him : ‘ You did n't have to touch the horse , but that would stop him . ’ |
| 37 | so he could prayers there on Sunday afternoon . |
| 38 | He could rope up with them , and they 'd reach the top for sure tomorrow . |
| 39 | Because he could jigger up the doors just the same as anybody else . |
| 40 | He could farm alpaca , deer and wild boar . |
| 41 | He could Batty , he could Strachan , he could McAllister , and a great many other things . |
| 42 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 43 | He hoped to buy a young pony that he could break-in and teach his daughter to ride . |
| 44 | He hoped a new contract to make the new Nissan model to replace the Micro would mean he could employee between six to ten more people by July . |
| 45 | He could coast along , asking nothing ; accepting everything , like the animals Vic admired so much , and staying out of trouble . |
| 46 | You could hand the overcoat over to your son when you 'd finished with it ; and he could hand it over to his son . ’ |
| 47 | Cameron slept instantly , and woke and dreamed and woke and dreamed for hours — the river , the cold shock of the water between his legs , the glimmer of light on the far shore , the current filling his mouth , he swam against it , it helped him , he struck out as smoothly as a seal , skimming effortlessly , he could power onwards forever , the water buoying him , his hand stroking it easily backwards without a splash … |
| 48 | Obviously Brian Harley was going through one of those phases , and felt that he could one-putt every green . |
| 49 | The tone could not be more seductive ; he could coo like a dove if it helped to get what he wanted . |
| 50 | He is dedicated , although he confesses there are occasions when he could practice harder . |
| 51 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 52 | He could Batty , he could Strachan , he could McAllister , and a great many other things . |
| 53 | Erm there was no way he could sort of get out it . |
| 54 | he could sort of call it |
| 55 | For instance , if you were given , say , poetry , and you could n't get on with it , he would n't sort of force you into it , he 'd sort of talk it over and find out why you did n't like it , could n't get on with it , and then he 'd put you on to something else you did like … |
| 56 | He said well he used to go and he 'd sort of look up at it , and he 'd sort of think about how he was gon na put it in there he said then he 'd be going like this then he 'd sort of get hold of the other hand he said and he 'd put it in like that and these other old boys are going like this with full hands you know ? |
| 57 | He said well he used to go and he 'd sort of look up at it , and he 'd sort of think about how he was gon na put it in there he said then he 'd be going like this then he 'd sort of get hold of the other hand he said and he 'd put it in like that and these other old boys are going like this with full hands you know ? |
| 58 | He said well he used to go and he 'd sort of look up at it , and he 'd sort of think about how he was gon na put it in there he said then he 'd be going like this then he 'd sort of get hold of the other hand he said and he 'd put it in like that and these other old boys are going like this with full hands you know ? |
| 59 | He 'd sort of hang out , he 'd shower with his |
| 60 | Occasionally , as if he was trying to control it , he would exhale three times in succession , and the sound would be forced from his throat in rhythmic grunts : ‘ Aha aha aha ’ . |