Example sentences of "[conj] he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such primitive surroundings , amid the stunning beauties of the island and the glories of the Aegean , where fishermen still wrested a living from the sea and farmers scrabbled one from the land , Leonard found his peace ; his ‘ sitting-down time , ’ as he called it , where he could — as all poets must — recollect in tranquillity . |
| 2 | On sunny days , when she had washed and dressed him , his chair would be taken out and placed under the Stocks Tree where he could watch the people come and go . |
| 3 | He decided , though , it would be best to do it alone and started searching for a new workshop where he could work in secret on a new plan . |
| 4 | Everyone then processed back to the Salle des fêtes , where coffee was served ; the Emperor left shortly afterwards to go to his study , where he could smoke his cigarette ; the male guests who shared his habit were allowed to retire to the smoking room , while the Empress remained behind with the ladies . |
| 5 | Then they all sorted out where he could drop — on the tractor path , which was in effect fairway . |
| 6 | The old warrior treated it as a kind of personal adventure playground where he could drive through cherished projects such as the revival of the wartime Home Guard or toy with trifles such as the age of entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth . |
| 7 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 8 | Coleman , in a letter of 17 February , proposed that an infirmary should be prepared in part of the Woolwich stables , where he could attend once or twice a week . |
| 9 | Another sees Riesenhuber in charge of a new ministry of the environment , where he could head off the political challenge of the Green movement which enters the West German parliament for the first time after the election successes . |
| 10 | And then he had watched two men leave the Tower and walk across towards the Stones , towards his Stones , and he had clambered down from his perch and hidden himself where they would not see him but where he could watch them . |
| 11 | Anton , his rolling bobbing head , in and out : and his mouth was ghastly , streaming blood and he bit at random , where he could : a cannibal feast , and there seemed no end to Parker , elephant big , but soft and white and easy to bleed , full of smells ; he could , heightened senses , whiff the slightest reek , the ebb and flow , as might a jackal , the strength drawn out of Parker . |
| 12 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 13 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 14 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 15 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 16 | Mr Hurd said he opposed military action , but conceded the time had come where he could ‘ imagine armed action against Serbia to prevent a general Balkan war ’ . |
| 17 | There was a large armchair in sister 's office where he could be dumped if he collapsed during ward rounds . |
| 18 | Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building , where he could gain as wide a view as possible . |
| 19 | His way into the sport was typical of the drivers of his generation : not having any money of his own , and his parents being both unwilling and unable to finance a career on which they must have looked with some distaste , Hunt had to start where he could : in the event , with a stripped-down Mini in which he learned the rudiments of the sport . |
| 20 | Doyle made his way through the crowded , smoky billiard hall , towards the bar at the end , where he could see Bodie nonchalantly sipping a coke . |
| 21 | In April this year , he was grabbed by Banda 's goons , thrown into a cell without a window , where he could barely stand up , and ( much later ) charged with sedition . |
| 22 | The Marshal crossed the sunny fore-court towards the shadow of the stone archway and into his office , where he could take off the dark glasses which he always had to wear when the sun was out . |
| 23 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |
| 24 | Right now I was too busy working on where he could take her for a honeymoon . |
| 25 | Very soon after his appointment he was pressing the Board to provide a consulting room where he could do his work , particularly the surgical operations . |
| 26 | He aimed , where he could , to take the industry out of party politics , but was willing to conform to the national interest where that was clearly defined by a Minister who had obvious Cabinet support . |
| 27 | As ever , Oscar took beauty where he could find it , and before setting off , halted to admire the spectacle . |
| 28 | Since Balbinder clearly made more progress in a small group where he could have a lot of attention , and where all worked at the same pace , this could be an answer . |
| 29 | But an out-of-work military leader more often found a war-ridden frontier where he could operate without needing to consult his king . |
| 30 | Indeed it was to escape this commotion of the house that young Tennyson sought sanctuary and solitude in the surrounding countryside , where he could be at peace with all he beheld and find the inspiration for his poetic thoughts which he conveyed to us by his pen . |