Example sentences of "he could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the court or the arbitrator should find against the validity of the expulsion , the injured partner should as a matter of common sense be given the opportunity of retiring from the firm on short notice : relations with those party to an attempt to expel him could scarcely be expected to remain harmonious . |
| 2 | you know , so the rebellion against him could just as easily have been because he was raised as an Egyptian or that , that the , you know the between monarchism from the past could also have been . |
| 3 | It was a habit he had that confirmed to Ruth that a romantic relationship with him could never be . |
| 4 | He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal . |
| 5 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 6 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 7 | ( This was a point on which Barth seems to have given Ritschl little credit ; but Ritschl so represented the things against which Barth was having to fight that he could rarely find anything at all to praise in him . |
| 8 | He could rarely resist buying anything he liked even though he had nowhere to put it . |
| 9 | It was rumoured that 71-year-old Hu Yaobang , Deng 's long-standing protégé was impatient for his mentor to step down so that he could firmly take the political reins and strengthen the embattled reformist position . |
| 10 | The Geordie who moved from Newcastle to Nottingham so he could regularly fish the Trent is rated by Frank Barlow as one of the country 's best float anglers — and accolades do n't come much higher than that ! |
| 11 | He had a good speaking voice , he was persuasive , he could mostly secure the attention of his opponents . |
| 12 | In the absence of classes of phones or phonemes valid for all members of a linguistic community , all oral communication would cease , for every individual could talk intelligibly only to himself , because he could meaningfully use , actively and passively , only one set of phones , namely his own . |
| 13 | Standing with him , chewing the chalky corn , it was not difficult to enter his vision of the only past to which he could comfortably look ; a spiritual homeland to which he could never return . |
| 14 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 15 | He was doing well , anyway , getting more patients each month , would soon have more than he could comfortably cope with . |
| 16 | He did this by bringing a camera up to his face , through which he could nevertheless still see the tiger 's actions . |
| 17 | When the hare belittled the tortoise for his slow ways , the tortoise responded that he could nevertheless win a race between them . |
| 18 | But if it is inconceivable that he could successfully shepherd nervous unionists through new talks with their nationalist counterparts and Dublin , equally his head can not be sacrificed in a Labour-Unionist deal to take Neil Kinnock to Downing Street . |
| 19 | And he could again seal victory at the 11th . |
| 20 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 21 | The official version of John Main 's transformation from watchman to tidesman was that this was a great favour to Main and would be a temporary appointment until he could again be reappointed to his duties as watchman at Inverkeithing . |
| 22 | The intention of the Old Testament law on usury , for example , was to make a man use his good fortune to help tide his less fortunate neighbour over a bad patch until he could again become self-sufficient . |
| 23 | But his mother still worries , should vital care be withdrawn , he could again try to kill himself . |
| 24 | Findlay , is due in today and providing he overcomes his jetlag , he could again prove the trump card and give his team a rare victory over Bury , who have already beaten them on all four occasions the two teams have met this season . |
| 25 | However , it is only fair to comment that he did place the lives of two of his most valuable NCOs in jeopardy as well as that of an officer whom he could ill afford to lose . |
| 26 | He thanked the singer and gave him another sop , which he could ill afford . |
| 27 | He could ill afford to lose such support in 1946 , the year of the mid-term elections . |
| 28 | but , yes , I mean , he was launched into several different careers by his father with money he could ill spare . |
| 29 | He thought he could jolly well do it better than Hoomey and co : he could swim and run , at least , which was halfway there , and he bet he could learn riding quicker than them . |
| 30 | Then he could jolly well get on with things — and came out into the passage . |