Example sentences of "[adv] he could [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only he could make a sound or move his body . |
| 2 | Perhaps he could get a doctor 's certificate , to say it would do him a damage . |
| 3 | Now that the tide was out he could see a channel cut in the rocks right out to the tide-line where once the outfall pipe had run . |
| 4 | Well he could charge a tenner and the dealers would be happy would n't they ? |
| 5 | So he learnt that if he gave a little he could expect a reward . |
| 6 | Somewhere he could hear a dog barking . |
| 7 | He wondered how he could get a word , alone , to warn her . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've had this security feller tell us how he could disable a punter by cutting the tendons at the back of his leg with this fancy Stanley blade . |
| 9 | It was an old basket , maybe he could make a hole in it . |
| 10 | Maybe he could hitch a lift . |
| 11 | ( Another of Sharky 's new routes in Cheedale is the quaintly named Thrash Your Woodie — maybe he could get a job writing Finbar Saunders scripts ! ) |
| 12 | A door led into a scullery where he could see a sink and a gas cooker on which a saucepan puffed little jets of steam . |
| 13 | He wondered where he could find a chance of quieter work . |
| 14 | When he , but then he said , like he said is there anywhere else where he could get a stage from and I explained to him that people come and hire the stage off us like Saint Michael-le-Belfry church , who are paying in cash . |
| 15 | Fifteen minutes later McKillop was in the street waiting for a bus that would take him to Westminster where he could get a connection down to Kennington . |