Example sentences of "[be] [det] he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not possess a markedly religious temperament , and most of his concerns were those he could share with lay people . |
| 2 | One CSE Grade 1 is all he could muster from school , so , fired by the grim prospect of a factory job , he went to a college of further education where he gained four ‘ O ’ levels after a year and then took a job at a wholesale jewellers , where they were n't too optimistic about his chances of promotion . |
| 3 | That 's all he could tell us . |
| 4 | Charles and Dimity 's bleak surroundings worried Harold continuously but there was little he could do . |
| 5 | She heard Rab , ‘ Get up ya lazy swine , ’ but Phillis did not stir ; there was little he could do . |
| 6 | Agreed , there was little he could do to ‘ sweeten ’ the corpse , but so much depended on how the body was ‘ dress 'd and trimm 'd ’ ; few people would be willing to patronize a funeral furnisher who took little care over the presentation of bodies . |
| 7 | Although the strong-minded Negrín was never the Communist catspaw his many critics accused him of being , there was little he could do in the circumstances to prevent the Communists from exercising an increasingly independent and even dominant role within Republican Spain . |
| 8 | There was little he could do about the image . |
| 9 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 10 | But while Draper might protest against the idea — while he might fulminate against his partner risking the hard-earned profits of the record company , the fruits of years of work and tears on a hare-brained scheme to run an airline — he also knew that there was little he could actually do to stop it . |
| 11 | In the meantime there was little he could do to prevent Leathart 's inspection . |
| 12 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 13 | Blake tried to persuade him that there was little he could have done anyway , but the time traveller would not agree . |
| 14 | He decided that although the Prime Mover had granted his wish , it was up to him how he used that time ; but with his badly broken body there was little he could do . |
| 15 | The closeness had somehow died , but apart from this she 'd been so sure there was much he could tell her . |