Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I had to try to prove to them that I could manage him . |
| 2 | And if I could bring him to reconciliation with the king , without more bloodshed and without revenge , I would count it a good deed both for England and Wales . |
| 3 | ‘ The tall one , mind , the one with his hands all over me — on my shoulders , actually , so I could lead him — well , he 's a bit luckier . |
| 4 | You might think , I could marry him and teach him . |
| 5 | I mean you 've got to keep the Home Fires Burning , Grin and Bear it , make him Feel Welcome — although see when he 's up at midnight frying eggs and he spatters grease all over my good ceramic hob I could brain him so I could — but I just tell myself he 's Not Home Forever and I bite my tongue . |
| 6 | So Herbie did n't try and jump in the car before I could lift him and trying to get Audrey in with her stiff leg . |
| 7 | " Yet if I could make him notice me perhaps he might consider my suitability as a wife . |
| 8 | I longed to prove you were unfaithful to him so I could make him throw you over — I felt like a monster with every ungenerous thought that flickered through my mind . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't trust one of those bastards further than I could throw him . |
| 10 | ‘ I just wish I could control him , ’ she says . |
| 11 | I mean I believe I could love him in the other way , his way , now . |
| 12 | He is the most remarkable looking creature I have ever seen , and I believe I could love him very much , and I believe that with him I could forget Fergus . |
| 13 | in the deepest recesses of my heart , how truly I could love him , honour him and obey him . ’ |
| 14 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 15 | ‘ But I could do him a bit of harm . |
| 16 | I could do him no good . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to seeing you , ’ he said , coming up close so I could smell him . |
| 18 | I could feel him rooting through my past . |
| 19 | I could feel him shaking his head . |
| 20 | A very different expressive effect is evoked by the bare infinitive be in the four examples of it found so far : ( 185 ) I could feel him fighting with himself … during all those afternoons … our wonderful afternoons of happiness ! … and I said nothing … |
| 21 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 22 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 23 | I could trap him . |
| 24 | I could leave him , she thought . |
| 25 | I could identify him easily because he was the only two-tone bream in the shoal . |
| 26 | But when Jem was born , there was no reason I could give him why not . |
| 27 | I wish I could give him a post , but I could not pass Lord Bute 's son with decency ’ . |
| 28 | Of course , he played war that he 'd got rubbish for his dinner , but he 'd got everything I could give him . |
| 29 | I could give him a message . |
| 30 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |