Example sentences of "man [pron] could " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If ever I did meet a man I could love , I should love him ’ — her voice dropped again — ‘ Platonically ’ … |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , to the only man I could trust . |
| 3 | You may , sir , the rather believe me when I declare that the only man I could honour more than another is the gentleman who of all others seeks my everlasting dishonour . |
| 4 | But I just ca n't do this with anyone else , because a long time ago I was raped , and my lover is the only man I could bear to touch me . |
| 5 | Now there is a man I could fall for . ’ |
| 6 | Cor that was a proper macho man I could tell ! |
| 7 | He believed that there was a great fund of benevolent feeling in man which could often counteract his egoism , and that man also possessed a moral sense , to which benevolence appeared with a special and attractive quality of moral goodness . |
| 8 | And that same yron man which could reueale |
| 9 | Sugar beet might be given the capacity to produce new amino-acids of value to man which could be extracted at the same time as the sugar . |
| 10 | This was a vicious unprovoked attack on an innocent man which could easily have had more tragic consequences . |
| 11 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 12 | Technically you are both liable for the overdraft and if you could find this man you could sue him . |
| 13 | Giles Hawick was not the sort of man you could flatten easily , and if you managed it , he would not pop up , bright , smiling and bearing no grudge , to face you the next ti me . |
| 14 | As I was soon to find , he was a man you could like even when you were joined in battle with him . |
| 15 | The Deputy Director of the SIS was a man you could pass in the street without noticing , an effect he 'd been careful to cultivate . |
| 16 | ‘ He was pleasant and charming , a nicer man you could n't meet . |
| 17 | How did you apply pressure to a man you could not even find ? |
| 18 | He had a face on him like a battered pluck ; he was gangly , you know ’ — she shook her arm — ‘ loose-limbed ; but he was the kindest , most considerate man you could ever wish to meet . |
| 19 | He was n't a man you could cross-question . |
| 20 | Treat that right , and it will bless your life and ennoble it , and make you ten times , yes , a hundred times , the man you could ever be without it … |
| 21 | Well , he was n't exactly the sort of man you could overlook , was he ? |
| 22 | Woolley was a man you could only feel against . |
| 23 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 24 | Quite how a man who could not bear to hurt a living thing after seeing the damage his childhood air-rifle did to a starling could serve as defence secretary is something of an enigma . |
| 25 | The King was sure that the present Prime Minister was the only man who could save the country and His Majesty himself was prepared to support him … |
| 26 | A man who could and would talk the hind legs back on to an injured donkey , provided it had decent proletarian credentials . |
| 27 | The Man Who Could Work Miracles ( 1936 ) amusingly shows a simple bank clerk trying to grasp the potential of the miracle-working powers he has been given , but frames this story within a portentous divine commentary on ‘ that little planet under the sun ’ , occupied by ‘ such silly little creatures , swarming and crawling . ’ |
| 28 | Ackland seems the sort of man who could hammer a nail in with his clenched teeth so he never begins to look like a tentative nonentity . |
| 29 | But it would be desperately hard , in the Arab world , to stand up to a man who could portray himself as a ( literally ) world-defying champion of Palestinian rights . |
| 30 | This last project is an embarrassingly inappropriate tribute to a man who could not identify any plants , trees or birds that he saw on his journeys except by such vapid statements as ‘ big and little birds of all sorts ’ , ‘ trees very green ’ , and ‘ many trees very different from ours . ’ |