Example sentences of "he could [noun] " 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 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 .
6 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 .
7 He could Batty , he could Strachan , he could McAllister , and a great many other things .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 so he could prayers there on Sunday afternoon .
12 He could rope up with them , and they 'd reach the top for sure tomorrow .
13 Because he could jigger up the doors just the same as anybody else .
14 He could farm alpaca , deer and wild boar .
15 He could Batty , he could Strachan , he could McAllister , and a great many other things .
16 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 .
17 He hoped to buy a young pony that he could break-in and teach his daughter to ride .
18 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 .
19 He could coast along , asking nothing ; accepting everything , like the animals Vic admired so much , and staying out of trouble .
20 You could hand the overcoat over to your son when you 'd finished with it ; and he could hand it over to his son . ’
21 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 …
22 Obviously Brian Harley was going through one of those phases , and felt that he could one-putt every green .
23 The tone could not be more seductive ; he could coo like a dove if it helped to get what he wanted .
24 He is dedicated , although he confesses there are occasions when he could practice harder .
25 Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again .
26 He could Batty , he could Strachan , he could McAllister , and a great many other things .
27 Erm there was no way he could sort of get out it .
28 he could sort of call it
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