Example sentences of "he could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Walter Machin was just what we went for in those days : we were all daft about him could n't think o' anything else , from morn to night . ’ |
| 2 | On the way back he pulled up on the side of the road and just said mum and him could n't live together any more . ’ |
| 3 | He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal . |
| 4 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 5 | ( This was a point on which Barth seems to have given Ritschl little credit ; but Ritschl so represented the things against which Barth was having to fight that he could rarely find anything at all to praise in him . |
| 6 | He could rarely resist buying anything he liked even though he had nowhere to put it . |
| 7 | It was rumoured that 71-year-old Hu Yaobang , Deng 's long-standing protégé was impatient for his mentor to step down so that he could firmly take the political reins and strengthen the embattled reformist position . |
| 8 | The Geordie who moved from Newcastle to Nottingham so he could regularly fish the Trent is rated by Frank Barlow as one of the country 's best float anglers — and accolades do n't come much higher than that ! |
| 9 | He had a good speaking voice , he was persuasive , he could mostly secure the attention of his opponents . |
| 10 | In the absence of classes of phones or phonemes valid for all members of a linguistic community , all oral communication would cease , for every individual could talk intelligibly only to himself , because he could meaningfully use , actively and passively , only one set of phones , namely his own . |
| 11 | He was doing well , anyway , getting more patients each month , would soon have more than he could comfortably cope with . |
| 12 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 13 | Standing with him , chewing the chalky corn , it was not difficult to enter his vision of the only past to which he could comfortably look ; a spiritual homeland to which he could never return . |
| 14 | When the hare belittled the tortoise for his slow ways , the tortoise responded that he could nevertheless win a race between them . |
| 15 | But if it is inconceivable that he could successfully shepherd nervous unionists through new talks with their nationalist counterparts and Dublin , equally his head can not be sacrificed in a Labour-Unionist deal to take Neil Kinnock to Downing Street . |
| 16 | And he could again seal victory at the 11th . |
| 17 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 18 | Findlay , is due in today and providing he overcomes his jetlag , he could again prove the trump card and give his team a rare victory over Bury , who have already beaten them on all four occasions the two teams have met this season . |
| 19 | But his mother still worries , should vital care be withdrawn , he could again try to kill himself . |
| 20 | The intention of the Old Testament law on usury , for example , was to make a man use his good fortune to help tide his less fortunate neighbour over a bad patch until he could again become self-sufficient . |
| 21 | However , it is only fair to comment that he did place the lives of two of his most valuable NCOs in jeopardy as well as that of an officer whom he could ill afford to lose . |
| 22 | He thanked the singer and gave him another sop , which he could ill afford . |
| 23 | He could ill afford to lose such support in 1946 , the year of the mid-term elections . |
| 24 | I 'm just saying that things might be less confused , and less dangerous , if he could soberly entertain the idea of being homosexual . |
| 25 | On 13 December 842 , at the palace of Quierzy , Charles married Ermentrude , niece of Adalard , because " he thought he could thereby win over to himself [ the support of ] the majority of the lesser aristocracy ( plebs ) " . |
| 26 | To test for this intention we would have to establish whether he would act as he did in situations where he had no reason to believe that he could thereby induce the false belief in question . |
| 27 | He had never invited anyone to dinner at the house , for the simple reason that they never had anything he could honestly call dinner . |
| 28 | He could honestly say that on waking this morning he was thankful to feel he was a free man . |
| 29 | Lucenzo ran lightly to the bow and vaulted the rail , landing neatly on the jetty to fasten the rope to the black and gold-striped bricole , timing everything to perfection so that he could single-handedly dock the boat and kill the engine . |
| 30 | Did they have to have so tight-packed an audience , with the front row so close to the dais on which he was sitting that he could positively feel their stupid gawping eyes on him ? |