Example sentences of "[adv] he could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he could get off the hook by saying he would go in the morning ? |
| 2 | And then last year Branson sold the music business to Thorn E M I for five hundred and sixty million pounds so he could focus on the airline , which was losing money . |
| 3 | There was nothing more he could say in the way of argument , so he decided to plague her other address with mail . |
| 4 | Now he could see to the lane that led to the pavillon . |
| 5 | In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy . |
| 6 | He argued that as soon as the council acknowledged their duty to secure accommodation for the plaintiff which they did by writing their letter of 8 March 1991 , the plaintiff acquired a private law right to the provision of suitable accommodation , which right he could enforce in the county court . |
| 7 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 8 | Then he could sleep through the drive and the laborious business of make-up . |
| 9 | A few days after Ranulf 's encounter with the drunken porter , Corbett decided that , for the moment , there was little else he could learn in the priory . |
| 10 | Trent walked round through the lean-to kitchen and stood in the doorway , from where he could see into the restaurant . |
| 11 | Greg elbowed his way through and got behind the engines , from where he could see into the garden . |