Example sentences of "he could [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , he had proved he could stay up with the leaders , and he went to South Africa in March in good spirits . |
| 2 | Before he could head off for the dustbin , Elinor gripped his wrist firmly . |
| 3 | In case you had n't noticed , Ulster 's John Reid is having a barnstorming season and he could end up in the top four in the championship with over 100 winners . |
| 4 | In case you had n't noticed , Ulster 's John Reid is having a barnstorming season and he could end up in the top four in the championship with over 100 winners . |
| 5 | He wore a rich robe so encrusted with precious metals and stones that I wondered if he could stand up under the weight And his eyes were tiny , wet and somehow avid as he looked me over — wholly ignoring Mala — from head to foot . |
| 6 | It had not occurred to him that he could stand up in the pub , leave the beer half-drunk , the sandwich half-eaten , walk out into the London early evening . |
| 7 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 8 | About half an hour before the return of the aircraft on operational nights we would wake up the duty Met Officer , who was usually snoozing in the ante-room , so that he could mug up on the weather situation before the first of the returning crews came in . |
| 9 | Apparently Chéron hid Modi 's clothes to keep him in , for Brancusi claimed to have rescued the stranded painter by buying him a jersey and a pair of trousers so that he could go out into the street . |
| 10 | He could step out into the ante-room , smoke a cigar , even take a walk around the block , and still be back in plenty of time to escort la Principessa safely through the crowd and out the door . |
| 11 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 12 | So it was ‘ all change ’ on Pig Street : Solomon Mead replaced Elizabeth Titford in the little dwelling house which had served the Titford family so well over the years , and Thomas Tuck began to see what kind of commercial success he could make out of the vacated butcher and chandler 's shop next door . |
| 13 | It was just dawn in Shepherd 's Bush , and he could make out without the flame of a candle the narrow , tightly packed words crabbing across the paper . |
| 14 | Dexter pressed his nose against the grid of cold metal but all he could make out in the shadowy interior was a counter and the shimmer of clothes hung up in plastic bags . |
| 15 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |
| 16 | Perhaps he could run back into the Romano-British Collection , gibbering . |
| 17 | He remembered it from childhood , a lugubrious , undistinguished tune which , as a ten-year-old , he could pick out on the drawing-room piano . |
| 18 | He could call in at the Informer office in Chancery Lane and use the telephone to arrange a suitably stimulating lunch . |
| 19 | The window was barred although it was possible to reach through and open the casement He preferred to sit there because in better weather he could see out into the Inner Ward and the White Tower . |
| 20 | Because he had not bothered to draw the curtains there was a trembling mosaic of light on the ceiling reflected from the water outside and , by sitting up in bed , he could see out of the window across the harbour to Flushing . |
| 21 | There was no key in the lock , so he could see in through the big old-fashioned key-hole . |
| 22 | He was thinking maybe , just maybe , he could dive over to the locker and grab his coat and get out . |
| 23 | With one sweep of his wings he could rise up into the sky and out of their grasp . |
| 24 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 25 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 26 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 27 | He said it abruptly , his body twisted round so that he could look back at the hotel . |
| 28 | Anyway , Reverend William Lee , his son and his brother , went over to France to see if Henry , King Henry of France could help him er but before he could get through to the court there King Henry died and then William Lee died without seeing his machine come to any sort of commercial fruition . |
| 29 | There was no other way in which he could get up to the roof . |
| 30 | He had managed to haul himself into a position where he gave rather more and received rather fewer orders and proceeded to look around to see how he could get out of the insurance office where economic necessity had landed him and where he had learned only a flashy taste in clothes and stationery . |