Example sentences of "[vb past] he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , this Satanist promised he could make things fly . |
| 2 | Hitch maintained he could stop buses with his head ( and frequently did ) . |
| 3 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 4 | Robert Converse who was not in this heat reported he could not pull the usual manifold pressure he uses when racing . |
| 5 | He had never been a happy sightseer and until his work was done , until Harry Lawrence 's killer was identified and caught he could n't see himself playing the tourist at the Changing of the Guard , or the Tower of London , even Poets ' Corner which he had longed to see , as a passionate student of English poetry … that would have to wait . |
| 6 | Sweat had stained his shirt and as Doyle approached he could smell the effort on the man 's body . |
| 7 | In an interview with the popular intellectual magazine Magill in June , Archbishop MacNamara found he could not accept that the state had the power to determine the meaning and nature of marriage and compared the effects of divorce to the recent Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 8 | Like animals , they are great levellers — not remotely impressed by a string of titles — and he always found he could build up a good rapport with them . |
| 9 | He discovered in the weeks and months that passed a real passion ; a task that was not only deeply therapeutic , but one that he also found he could do rather well . |
| 10 | He could control his left arm on the handlebar when riding a push-bike , but he found he could not use an exercise bicycle because the effort involved automatically increased his spasticity beyond his control . |
| 11 | The next day he went to work , but found he could not concentrate and returned home without telling anyone . |
| 12 | He found he could dowse the ‘ charge ’ in a stone , the wavelength being in the radio section of the electromagnetic spectrum , that this became fixed by electromagnetism , and that the germination of plants could be affected if they are on one of the ‘ charge lines ’ . |
| 13 | He found he could no longer hide behind a naive love , a sensuous world of uncomplex bohemia and he was drawn , still yearning for past ignorance , not up or down , but along to a state of affairs that simply put he could not cope with . |
| 14 | He would never be able to read Abul Ismail , as he found he could decipher so many . |
| 15 | He found he could n't pursue the thought to its proper conclusion . |
| 16 | Delaney found he could n't say anything . |
| 17 | Greatrakes , however , found he could cure advanced scrofula , and soon extended his treatment to dropsy , ague , rheumatism and many other ailments . |
| 18 | He 'd come here first and found he could n't get in . |
| 19 | At fourteen he found he could also copy perfectly any handwriting placed in front of him . |
| 20 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 21 | Bradl also found he could cope with pressure last season . |
| 22 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 23 | The wind caught at him , blew at him , a gusty enemy he found he could hardly overcome . |
| 24 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 25 | Joseph found he could n't sit still and he rose to pace back and forth at a distance from the others . |
| 26 | He spoke slowly , his gaze never leaving Fairham , who found he could only hold that gaze for a couple of seconds at a time . |
| 27 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
| 28 | And he found he could n't handle it . |
| 29 | He circled , looking for the other two , and then found he could n't level out : the outer half of the left wing was shredded , as if by hailstones . |
| 30 | Even so , he found he could n't walk away . |