Example sentences of "he could [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died before he could reach a hospital and was later found to have a fractured skull . |
| 2 | But if he thought that he could goad a reaction out of her then he was sorely mistaken . |
| 3 | He was a fool to expect anything other than he got , however : surely only vanity could have made him think he could seduce a mob of Madness fans ? |
| 4 | if he could borrow a screwdriver on the end of our little shops there . |
| 5 | He had been tempted , so amusing did he find the situation , to ring the doorbell and ask if he could borrow a jack to change a wheel , or something . |
| 6 | His mother had been silent when she first saw it , and his father had been angry at the lack of enthusiasm and had arranged to take Stuart fishing for a day to a small loch where he could borrow a boat . |
| 7 | The family were surprised to hear that he had written to his father asking if he could bring a friend to stay . |
| 8 | If as a captain he was not authoritarian enough , that was just not his style ; given opposition that were not vastly superior he could lead a team well enough , and chalked up two notable series wins against India and Australia . |
| 9 | Murray was doubtful as to whether this would be enough ; but Heiton declared that he could send a couple of men into the Roxburgh township , to the alehouses and howffs , to spread the word that the Regent himself was in the vicinity . |
| 10 | And then he 'd buy a bit so that he could send a bit to the London market — not in a very big way but enough to utilize all the money he had to do what he was doing . |
| 11 | To begin a case the petitioner needed to go to the curia to get a mandate to judges at home or he could send a proctor . |
| 12 | The king never turned up and the laird was left with paths on which he could hold a formula one race . |
| 13 | ‘ But he would be a very strong runner indeed for Walker Cup honours , never mind international selection , if he could lift a trophy . ’ |
| 14 | But before he could finish a clang of metal and a shattering crash of glass caused them all to spin round . |
| 15 | He found that he could pay a compliment to Charles Raven , from whom he was so sadly sundered in spirit , for his book on Religion and Science . |
| 16 | He could pay a lot of cash , too . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe he could hitch a lift . |
| 18 | ‘ But Urban the Eighth took the bronze from the inside of the dome and gave it to Bernini so he could create a baldacchino — a canopy — for the papal altar in Saint Peter 's . ’ |
| 19 | In the 1970s he bet his father he could open a vineyard in Utah , a state where drink and the devil are considered kissin' cousins . |
| 20 | Very handy with a hip flask , but did n't look as if he could tell a Renoir from a Renault . |
| 21 | If he heard this conversation he could throw a writ for slander at me . ’ |
| 22 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |
| 23 | Auckland District Court heard that the 20-year-old man ‘ was merely trying to attract their attention , so he could start a conversation ’ and that such behaviour was perfectly normal on his archipelago . |
| 24 | A poor man who entered into a partnership could complete the first stage in a year to fifteen months ; he could start a partnership with a poorer man in two or three years . |
| 25 | He could start a debate about a church that in order to survive will be radically different from the one we know . |
| 26 | He did n't believe that he could start a movement which would lead directly to the abolition of British erm armaments , the rejection of the atomic bomb or anything of that kind . |
| 27 | He could spin a yarn , and you had to take what he said with a pinch of salt . |
| 28 | Before he could give a warning , the Doctor slammed on the brakes . |
| 29 | and as long as he could give a residence |
| 30 | He was good at sports , and he could handle a boat better than any of the other men 's fathers . |