Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he found out I knew about cameras and all that , he realised I could make myself useful round the studio , so I sort of moved in . |
| 2 | He realised he could make a lot of money and a name for himself if he were to act swiftly and produce his maps before Green had time to complete his own . |
| 3 | But did he think I could give an answer ? |
| 4 | ‘ What help he thinks he could give , I ca n't imagine . |
| 5 | However , he will not run for office if he thinks he could lose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 8 | He found he could dowse the ‘ charge ’ in a stone , the wavelength being in the radio section of the electromagnetic spectrum , that this became fixed by electromagnetism , and that the germination of plants could be affected if they are on one of the ‘ charge lines ’ . |
| 9 | By half emptying one of the sacks onto the floor of the van he found he could drag it with his right hand and hold onto the box with his left . |
| 10 | He would never be able to read Abul Ismail , as he found he could decipher so many . |
| 11 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 12 | As he approached we could see that the dog had been wounded : it was limping and the fur on its flank was matted with blood . |
| 13 | Yet , strangely , even as he approached I could tell he would not harm me . |
| 14 | Sarella turned in time to catch Marc 's worried glance following the reckless path of the jeep , but then he turned , and she could almost believe she 'd imagined that fleeting expression when he gave her a cynical smile and said , ‘ If it 's proverbs he wants I could have swopped him a more appropriate one . ’ |
| 15 | He says they could have killed her . |
| 16 | He says they could have used more forward-looking technology . |
| 17 | He says you could argue we 're just transferring the pollution from the streets to the power station . |
| 18 | He says he could mean patients wo n't have any visitors . |
| 19 | And er he , of course with him being a blacksmith , he could get a job anywhere in America , he says he could leave a town tonight and land in another town , he says and he could be sure of getting a job with him being a blacksmith . |
| 20 | He says it could cost some pensioners as much as £25 a week and is urging the council to think again . |
| 21 | He says it could divert manpower away from more needy areas . |
| 22 | He says it could mean treatment is of an inferior quality in hospitals outside the county . |
| 23 | He says it could mean an extra 15 to 20 pence a week . |
| 24 | He says it could fill a warehouse but he 's not going to . |
| 25 | He says it could have been anxiety |
| 26 | He says it could have easily been him , but they know the risk when they get ready to start . |
| 27 | No he says I could do it in a lot less time than that , he said and a lot neater , I said , you saying I 'm a scruffy writer ? |
| 28 | She almost felt sympathy for Marc if he imagined he could change what was deeply ingrained in Peter 's nature . |
| 29 | He needed a bath and quickly , he imagined he could smell smoke and the sour stench of sweat from his skin . |
| 30 | Culley 's teeth ached slightly along the line of the gum ; he imagined he could feel the air trickling through his lungs like snow-melt in a delta . |