Example sentences of "he could [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I said he could borrow them , cos he 's in the team . |
| 2 | The court heard that Jones scoured the Penrhys estate after the burglary and took his friends to Mr Penrose 's house because he believed he could lead them to the culprits . |
| 3 | If it is a major accident to a wide bodied jet he could send them all . |
| 4 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 5 | He could offer them — what ? — not more than fifty or sixty pounds altogether . |
| 6 | Chuck Sherman , who had noticed the excited gleam in his young brother 's eyes , grinned and punched him affectionately on the arm as he took the binoculars , but before he could lift them to his eyes a tumult of shouting and screaming broke out suddenly among the throng of Chinese pressing up against the iron grille below them . |
| 7 | By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code . |
| 8 | If only he could tell them he was all right , in good shape , considering … . |
| 9 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |
| 10 | He was not the most welcoming of hosts , alarmed at the thought of what one thousand men and horses could do to his winter 's supplies and forage ; but at least he could tell them that a large mounted party had indeed passed this way two days previously and had turned off out of this main Yarrow valley southwards , to climb by Altrieve to the high pass of Tushielaw , which would take them to the Ettrick valley . |
| 11 | At least he could tell them I 'm alive and all right . |
| 12 | Or at least Kenny had no idea why anyone should think he was an oppo of yours , and he could tell them virtually zilch . |
| 13 | Charles II found land grants very convenient ; he could give them to people who at the beginning of the century would have asked for monopolies and he could feel confident that these grants would not rouse the hostility in England that monopolies had caused . |
| 14 | Perhaps he could give them a bit of something Shakespearian . |
| 15 | Now he must either spend countless valuable minutes retrieving the escaped marbles , or he could ignore them and leave Vic to reach his own conclusions . |
| 16 | He said he could do them himself because I 'm not having . |
| 17 | But even with his new London base it was impossible to gather enough talent from both his schools for the coming Christmas , so he advertised for dancers in the trade papers and took a chance that he could knock them into shape . |
| 18 | ‘ You have a habit of ill-humour ’ — his thoughts spoke themselves before he could stop them . |
| 19 | Surere 's eyes gave away his thought before he could stop them . |
| 20 | Before he could stop them the memories came galloping back . |
| 21 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
| 22 | He could feel them at the small of his back , feel the scratch of the lavender garland which she still held . |
| 23 | He could remind them that since 1981 , the volume of manufactured exports from the United Kingdom has outstripped that of France , Germany , Japan and the United States of America . |
| 24 | Them at the have asked Barry if he could fit them a box over their electric meter . |
| 25 | If they hesitated , he could show them his revolver and his stick to convince them that he was in earnest . |
| 26 | Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go . |
| 27 | The independence which they had won was qualified , and in the long run the king lost little by this switch : he could still tax the clergy — and did so frequently — and he could convoke them when it would have been impolitic to convene the laity in parliament . |
| 28 | Or rather , he could make them , but just did n't feel like abiding by them a few hours later . |
| 29 | Blake believed that if he could understand all aspects of his horses , he could make them happy and motivate them to work better and to be more successful in competition . |
| 30 | By gum , he could make them go ! |