Example sentences of "he could [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might not matter in the end — Forester fully expected to be traced and caught-but every difficulty and delay that he could strew behind him could make a final difference of hours or even minutes that might determine the distinction between success or failure . |
| 2 | Stevens was one of the most meticulous of film directors and any actor working with him could expect a gruelling time . |
| 3 | He died before he could reach a hospital and was later found to have a fractured skull . |
| 4 | He realised the medium 's power , and realised that , through it , he could reach a different public and establish a new image with them . |
| 5 | But if he thought that he could goad a reaction out of her then he was sorely mistaken . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | If he could get up to Dunbar Castle , he could borrow a good horse there and be in Edinburgh five hours later . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | if he could borrow a screwdriver on the end of our little shops there . |
| 11 | The family were surprised to hear that he had written to his father asking if he could bring a friend to stay . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It must be shown that the plaintiff acted voluntarily in the sense that he could exercise a free choice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The king never turned up and the laird was left with paths on which he could hold a formula one race . |
| 18 | When he presented a complete pantomime , which naturally he had devised , directed , co-composed and co-designed , he could offer a weekly wage for an average of seventy-five artistes in each show . |
| 19 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure he does , but I doubt he could protect a miniature poodle , ’ Martin commented , thinking how very vulnerable she was in this big house with only old Clyde to look after her . |
| 21 | ‘ But he would be a very strong runner indeed for Walker Cup honours , never mind international selection , if he could lift a trophy . ’ |
| 22 | But before he could finish a clang of metal and a shattering crash of glass caused them all to spin round . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I like the way that Rob McCaffrey 's commentary allows you time to enjoy the action , although I thought he could pay a little more attention to his scripting in places . |
| 25 | He could pay a lot of cash , too . ’ |
| 26 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 27 | If only he could inherit a few more of the great Australian chaser 's foibles , this afternoon 's first prize would be in the bag . |
| 28 | Maybe he could hitch a lift . |
| 29 | He relished the thought of showing that he could create a viable large-scale industrial organisation in the public sector , as they had in private industry . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |