Example sentences of "he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E said 'e needs a lot o' money ter get it started an' that 's what 's worryin' me. 'E could be up to anyfink . ’ |
| 2 | Rumour 'as it that Maitland only went ter the fights ter get all the evidence 'e could . |
| 3 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 4 | He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal . |
| 5 | They were the same terms which Dante and the mediaeval jurists insisted on : Virgil was great , was perpetually relevant and in that sense ‘ a classic ’ ( if not , more exactingly , the one indisputable ‘ classic ’ ) , because in him could be found what Dante teased out of him — the vision of Empire , of the divinely appointed imperium , which must be reconciled ( this way and that , for the reconciling was not easy ) with the no less divinely intended ecclesia . |
| 6 | The don in him could be satisfied and its conscience allayed by having intellectually broken into the truth . |
| 7 | He saw that the intellectual side of him could not be wrong , somehow he must baptize it . |
| 8 | If meeting him could make you reach for something a lot stronger than H 2 O , you will be relieved to hear that he 's anchored to the ground . |
| 9 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 10 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 11 | If the treatment has caused any physical damage ( for example to your scalp or face ) visit your GP as a statement from him could help your case . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 14 | Stevens was one of the most meticulous of film directors and any actor working with him could expect a gruelling time . |
| 15 | No-one who looked at him could meet his gaze . |
| 16 | No one who heard him could doubt the strength of his commitment . |
| 17 | An argument for clemency toward him could be grounded in the belief that it would be a tactical error to declare Copernican doctrines heretical , because that might discourage Protestants from returning to the Roman fold . |
| 18 | We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers . |
| 19 | Held , allowing the appeal ( Lord Lowry dissenting ) , that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner of goods or consented to by him could amount to an appropriation of the goods within section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 where such authority or consent had been obtained by deception ; and that , accordingly , the defendant had been rightly convicted of theft ( post , pp. 1073F , 1076G–H , 1080C–F , 1081C–D , 1109F , 1111E ) . |
| 20 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 21 | ‘ And neither of us could be happy deceiving him could we ? ’ |
| 22 | A 15-year-old boy 's battle to force his mother to talk to him could end in stalemate due to the wording of the Children Act . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She might then have been younger than Oswiu and her liaison with him could have occurred c . |
| 25 | Conversation with him could be exciting and enjoyable , but one was uneasily aware of potential explosions . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | But anyway , some lawyer I think in New York , working for Rockefeller Brothers , sent a piece of slate to my Uncle Jonathan , asking him could he tell , what quarry in Wales , this particular tile had come from . |
| 28 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 29 | A doctor , Alvarez was alleged to have participated in the 1985 torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena-Salazar by helping to prolong the agent 's life so that the drug-traffickers who had captured him could continue to interrogate him . |
| 30 | The consequences of rejecting him could be ( a ) a fatal split in the Labour Party as a whole ; ( b ) an utterly confused state of party politics in the Commons ; and-most serious of all in the immediate term for Labour-(c) the danger that the Queen might refuse to appoint B Prime Minister because of his obvious lack of a Commons majority . |