Example sentences of "[coord] he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he could follow the Germans , who have duly provided him with an excuse for higher base rates at next week 's party conference — but have also made it abundantly clear that the Bundesbank is the dominant monetary authority in Europe , and our much-vaunted independence is so much poppy-cock . |
| 2 | In his moment of illumination on the bus , Lewis felt that he could either remain encased in this shell , or he could take it off . |
| 3 | Or he could have opted out altogether . |
| 4 | Or he could sell most of his land to Mr Big and his house and a few acres could fall into the hands of a merchant banker who wants somewhere quiet with a paddock for the daughter 's ponies . |
| 5 | Or he could make a determined effort to solve the mystery , whatever the risk . |
| 6 | Now he must either spend countless valuable minutes retrieving the escaped marbles , or he could ignore them and leave Vic to reach his own conclusions . |
| 7 | ‘ Or he could have been somebody local , a farmer , or … or anything . ’ |
| 8 | Or he could face a knottier , and probably impossible , problem — how to woo the 20-plus Liberal Democrats who are likely to be returned and who would insist on electoral reform and Scottish devolution as pre-conditions for their support . |
| 9 | Either there were not enough fish for him in the Black Sea , or he could n't catch them . |
| 10 | Or he could go for a referendum . |
| 11 | Or he could … |
| 12 | While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson . |
| 13 | From this garden Coleridge could either walk on through Poole 's orchard and a ‘ fine meadow ’ to the home of his new friends , John and Anna Cruikshank , or he could negotiate Poole 's tanyard and its ‘ Tartarean tan-pits ’ to reach the Castle Street house itself . |
| 14 | Either he could hang about drinking and flirting and achieve nothing , with the risk of embarrassment if Fedorov arrived , or he could try the direct approach . |
| 15 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 16 | Lee 's spontaneous remark could have been followed by a suggestion that he tried to sort the vans from the other vehicles in the garage , or he could have been encouraged to watch vans travelling outside the school . |
| 17 | Similarly , the defendant could render the case ineffective by giving or arranging for skilful testimony in his defence , or he could file a counter-case which , if successful , would result in the punishment of the original complainant . |
| 18 | Or he could have gone to the lavatory , but I doubt whether he would have heard anything from there . ’ |
| 19 | Or he could at least have appeared to accept it and put on a show : he was already capable enough of that . |
| 20 | I do n't recommend this as a tactic unless the rest of your cavalry is already engaged , or he could be surrounded and overwhelmed by a mass of lesser troops . |
| 21 | Secondly it had demonstrated that the clergy were well nigh powerless against royal tax demands : if they would not make a grant , the king could outlaw them and raise the money by fines , or he could simply seize their temporalities . |
| 22 | I 'd kind of been hoping they 'd take the cuffs off me altogether by now but I suppose they 're thinking that the body in the shaft does n't prove anything by itself , and that Andy could still be dead , or he could be alive and he — or somebody else — could have kidnapped Halziel and Lingary to provide cover for me . |
| 23 | Mr Davies ' remarks can be interpreted in two ways : the public expression of a maverick opinion , in the manner of Bill Cash or Ivan Lawrence ; or he could be acting with covert government backing as a kind of stalking horse to gauge the reaction from MPs , and the public , to his suggestion . |
| 24 | He tried re-dialling two or three times , but either it was a long conversation or he could n't time it right to slip in between calls . |
| 25 | If you see a picture of a golfing great with his hands well in front of the clubhead at impact , you can be sure that he is either playing the type of shot I have just mentioned or he could be squeezing the ball out of a tight lie . |
| 26 | Or he could start his own venue , impose his own narrow-minded door policy and see how few people turn up and how few bands agree to play . |
| 27 | Is it not a fact that if the right Hon. Gentleman was dissatisfied with the time that would be available by way of a normal parliamentary answer , he could have opted as any Minister , with your permission , Mr. Speaker , to take that question at the end of Question time and then face proper intensive questions , or he could have made a statement ? |
| 28 | Or he could marry a rich sheila . |
| 29 | He could fly around , measuring the pheromonal concentrations , and then orient in the direction where the concentration increased ; or he could simply turn upwind . |
| 30 | Or he could have flown it around in the wastes of ice where Shackleton lost the Endurance . |