Example sentences of "could he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how could he rest with so much activity going on at UNACO headquarters ? |
| 2 | Could he feel the vibration in her shoulders from her heart , hammering like a piston behind her breastbone ? |
| 3 | Nor could he disregard the Salic Law which forbade the accession to the throne of a woman . |
| 4 | How could he forget the first daemon he had combatted in full knowledge of its nature ? |
| 5 | How could he forget the intense little man in that crypt of a dining room ? |
| 6 | How could he bind himself , when he did not know the day or the hour when Isambard might come home ? |
| 7 | How could he open the door for Sapt now ? |
| 8 | It could he argued that Latin America offers a good example of this . |
| 9 | If proof was lacking , the trust beneficiary could turn only to his rights in personam against the trustee ; nor , since there was no doctrine of tracing , could he lay claim to the property received by the trustee in place of the original trust property . |
| 10 | How could he change his life , which seemed irretrievably set on a course of obscurity ? |
| 11 | But how could he presume this on so little knowledge of me ? |
| 12 | How could he refuse , eh ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Could he check ? ’ |
| 14 | What more could he inflict on his subjects ? |
| 15 | But how far , even as an occasional visitor , could he isolate himself from the community , from their private tragedies no less than their dinner parties ? |
| 16 | I said that was fine , but could he return me the biography I had sent ? |
| 17 | But what could he do about it ? |
| 18 | What could he do that would sum up everything he knew about himself ? |
| 19 | What the hell could he do ? |
| 20 | ‘ How could he do this to me , how could he leave me all alone to manage , he promised me he would never leave me alone to cope by myself . ’ |
| 21 | He must ask Maud Bailey about the Prowler , yet how could he do so without coming clean in some way — about his own interest in the matter ? |
| 22 | No one farmer could possibly be qualified to advise on all the options , nor could he do more than skate over them in one volume . |
| 23 | ‘ Well … suppose it was one of the passengers who wanted to stop the train getting happily to Vancouver , what could he do ? ’ |
| 24 | What could he do — what could anyone do — when a doctor was blamed for something of which he was not guilty ? |
| 25 | What could he do but pray — to the utterly remote , barely imaginable Emperor ? |
| 26 | He stayed on in Lyons — what else could he do ? — and took the first step to excommunicate Henry if his lands and revenues were not restored . |
| 27 | Could he do it again ? |
| 28 | What could he do ? |
| 29 | He said that of course he would , but what could he do ? |
| 30 | Could he do that ? |