Example sentences of "he could be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ James Menzies began , then raised his voice so that he could be heard as well by the crowd as by the factor . |
| 2 | If this went well , he could be allowed off the lead to play with his new friend for a short while . |
| 3 | This is not only the temperament of the teacher : it represents also , with Pound , a passionate desire , not merely to write well himself , but to live in a period in which he could be surrounded by equally intelligent and creative minds . |
| 4 | Although the No. 8 Rob Wainright broke his leg in midweek , he could be back in training in November , and in John Wilby he had a deputy who shone in the back row . |
| 5 | He retained his northern direct honesty of judgement , was absolutely without pretence and intolerant of humbug ; he could be devastatingly acid in deprecating affectation in others , yet was , in so many ways , unfailingly and practically kind . |
| 6 | At the same time he could be penetratingly serious ; but , above all , he was poignantly lovable . |
| 7 | MICHAEL KINANE , the champion jockey of Ireland , completed the most sensational 24 hours of his career when he took the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , at Longchamp yesterday , but he had to endure the longest 20 minutes of his life before he could be sure the victory was his . |
| 8 | He could be mean to those who worked for him and generous to those to whom he owed nothing . |
| 9 | He could be forgiven that . |
| 10 | There was a cook and a maid and he could be fierce with them . |
| 11 | He could be stern even with his wife if something went wrong . |
| 12 | He could be a severe disciplinarian but he was not a rigid man . |
| 13 | He could be vehement in denunciation . |
| 14 | He could be scarifying in his abuse of imperialists . |
| 15 | He could be very funny indeed . |
| 16 | Sometimes he could be observed wearing some garment inside out . |
| 17 | The oddity which the fellow-curates remarked was that as he walked in the procession from the vestry up the aisle he could be heard whistling . |
| 18 | He knew that he could be accused of acting like some less satisfactory prime ministers in this constitutional field , that is , choosing an archbishop of his own lay power without the approval of the Church ; and he disliked that situation . |
| 19 | Once upon a time there was a man who thought he could be a dragon-master . |
| 20 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 21 | Prost ( right ) is worried that he could be penalised for being involved in ostensibly innocent race clashes |
| 22 | What troubles the admirer of Lewis the critic — the man who had such an eye for excellence in the poets of past ages — is that he could be capable of stanza after stanza in which the verse is deadened by flat language , repeated clumsy enjambments and sheer technical incompetence . |
| 23 | He could be touchy and irritable ; Lewis could be brash and tactless . |
| 24 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 25 | The fearsome riots that swept the inner cities in 1981 , in Brixton first , then Toxteth and Hansworth , Moss Side and Bristol , came as no surprise , and convinced Charles that this was the area where he could be of some use . |
| 26 | He had watched until the night nurse had left the office and now he was as sure as he could be that she had gone below for a meal . |
| 27 | If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog . |
| 28 | If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog . |
| 29 | He could be a danger . |
| 30 | ‘ He should have an intensive medical examination and a complete psychological assessment before he could be considered to box Benn for that title . |