Example sentences of "he could [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he got in early enough he could lunch with George . |
| 2 | He could glamour it all up by putting in a phoney dashboard and to that end he thought that perhaps he could borrow ( borrow is a word we use a lot in the Air Force ) some instruments from an old aeroplane down on the aerodrome — I believe it was a Boulton Paul Sidestrand . |
| 3 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 4 | He believed he could outmanoeuvre and trap the English King ; he too had his spy at Godstowe to keep an eye on Corbett . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | He could rope up with them , and they 'd reach the top for sure tomorrow . |
| 10 | Because he could jigger up the doors just the same as anybody else . |
| 11 | He could farm alpaca , deer and wild boar . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He hoped to buy a young pony that he could break-in and teach his daughter to ride . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He could coast along , asking nothing ; accepting everything , like the animals Vic admired so much , and staying out of trouble . |
| 16 | You could hand the overcoat over to your son when you 'd finished with it ; and he could hand it over to his son . ’ |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | Obviously Brian Harley was going through one of those phases , and felt that he could one-putt every green . |
| 19 | The tone could not be more seductive ; he could coo like a dove if it helped to get what he wanted . |
| 20 | He is dedicated , although he confesses there are occasions when he could practice harder . |
| 21 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 22 | Erm there was no way he could sort of get out it . |
| 23 | he could sort of call it |