Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How he thought he could love Mama so much and dislike her friends and relations on the grounds that they were Italian , I do n't know . |
| 2 | He was grieving for his own pain and sense of loss at not having a father whom he could love . |
| 3 | Riven realised with no surprise that he could love this world and its people , despite the heartbreak it had wrought on him . |
| 4 | He wanted a home , someone he could love , someone he could relax with . |
| 5 | She wished he could love her ! |
| 6 | The world could be lost and she would think it well lost if only he could love her . |
| 7 | He just got dormitory accommodation and as much food as he could eat . |
| 8 | He was untwisting the top of the bag so that he could eat some more . |
| 9 | Wayne , Ricky 's favourite pony , had such a low threshold of boredom that he had a special manger hooked over the half-door so he could eat and miss nothing in the yard at the same time . |
| 10 | A MAGISTRATE gave his packed lunch to a hungry down-and-out yesterday after the man begged to be jailed so that he could eat . |
| 11 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 12 | Stewart told us that Whaddon 's offer of a free bus pass and as many pizza slices as he could eat if he signed for the club was ‘ frankly , insulting ’ . |
| 13 | Maybe he could eat the pages . |
| 14 | ‘ He looks at you as though he could eat you ! ’ |
| 15 | When Squire Osbaldeston won the bet at Newmarket he proclaimed ’ He was so hungry he could eat an old woman ! ’ |
| 16 | Under hypnosis , he could suggest , for instance , that this person was going to kill my wife and children and that , as a good Christian , I could not possibly allow that to happen . |
| 17 | She asked if he could suggest how she could contact an MP . |
| 18 | Perhaps , when she had recovered from this encounter , he could suggest that they become engaged , albeit in an unacknowledged fashion as he could not afford a ring worthy of her . |
| 19 | Frank Daugherty saw Cagney 's style as just a logical development from that of other gangster types and identified as the most effective of his ‘ tricks ’ the way in which he could suggest that he was ‘ thinking his own thoughts ’ and ‘ reserving his feelings ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll ask George the roadsweeper , ’ was all he could suggest . |
| 21 | It was unbelievable that he could suggest such a thing — and she wondered if it was a test of some sort . |
| 22 | 2 years ago Teddy Sutton did n't know he could carve ; now his work is on display at up to £300 a time . |
| 23 | Joyce called together such members as he could gather of the National Socialist League and its intellectual offshoot the Carlyle Club . |
| 24 | But he decided against it : the mood was not upon him — nor upon anyone else in the coach , as far as he could gather . |
| 25 | She was holding on for dear life , leaning into him , lifting on tiptoe so that he could gather her close , hold her tightly in his arms , while his tongue slipped into her mouth , while his hand swept up her ribs and lightly cupped her breast … |
| 26 | He could eject this by jerking his head upwards , and then catch it again in the socket . |
| 27 | Assemblies were the pivot : so long as the king could secure attendance , he could refill his coffers , exercise patronage , and maintain consensus at the same time . |
| 28 | He would have to heave her blood-stained body away from the door and then scramble over it before he could race out and lose himself in the hills . |
| 29 | He gazed at an ineffable , agonizing radiance which only he could perceive , banishing whatever throwback emotions the brew had triggered . |
| 30 | Biff thought he could perceive the pattern well enough . |