Example sentences of "[conj] he could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 ‘ Wow , ’ Wayne said , obviously wishing that he could stay in the front and eavesdrop .
4 He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following .
5 ‘ Eventually I was able to convince Michael that he could sing in the way he now does , ’ says Lloyd Webber .
6 He also showed his inexperience by asking Gerry Gomez , his captain , if he could be substituted so that he could go to the airport to meet his sister .
7 Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else .
8 My old man occasionally joined us on a Saturday morning , but only to get some cash off Granpa so that he could go to the Black Bull and spend it all with his mate Bert Shorrocks .
9 Indeed in May nineteen ninety Mr gave up his appointment as a teacher in order that he could care for the plaintiff full time .
10 Chaucer 's prototype , the Miller of Trumpington , was such a well-trained rogue that he could distinguish between the various degrees of filching ; and he could steal as occasion served him , either ‘ courteously ’ or right ‘ outrageously ’ .
11 He said this explorer had said he 'd had some special underpants made so that he could pee in the river safely .
12 More precisely still , it was because he was not in the dark about God that he could walk in the dark about Isaac .
13 He angled his chair so that he could sit by the fire and watch her .
14 It was not something that he could admit to the outside world , though .
15 The jury , sitting in court 4 at Bristol , were sent home early by Judge Overend , so that he could drive to the bridge to see for himself the spot at which the accident happened .
16 If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ .
17 Allen had never earned more than ten pounds a week , taking part-time jobs during the day so that he could write in the evenings .
18 And er I mean I tried to indicate you know to him that he could claim against the company and get his premiums back , but unfortunately , there was no letter and no i indication , and the person was no longer with the company .
19 He waited ; patient , alert , ready to take the only way now that he could escape to the Forest of Dean .
20 Nevertheless the Official Solicitor on that day tried to persuade the NIRC to convene immediately so that he could apply for the committal orders to be discharged .
21 A voder commentary accompanied the recording , but Rostov had switched off the auditory input to his chair so that he could converse with the Manchu technician who was running the session .
22 Yesterday , Ferguson said : ‘ I think it was a question of convincing Ryan that he could operate on the right .
23 Crane cut back into the forest to make a circuit so that he could get beyond the horses .
24 It perhaps reveals Gedge 's ever-growing confidence that he could see beyond the macho nonsense and enjoy himself .
25 Slowly , in case a sudden movement on his part might break his fragile control over his own legs , Hugh bent slightly so that he could see under the chest .
26 Masklin waded through the puddles on the concrete so that he could see down the far side of the aircraft .
27 As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist .
28 It was like driving the machines around an invisible Wall of Death Lambert found that he could look across the circle and see right inside the German pilot 's cockpit .
29 This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment .
30 This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment .
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