Example sentences of "could he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , now , when you see the doctor , if he decides to mend you with one or two stitches , you tell him I said , could he please give you a stitch to take home in a matchbox ? |
| 2 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 3 | Nor could he even remember now what he had said in that burst of spleen . |
| 4 | How could he even contemplate she might behave badly ? |
| 5 | How could he even ask ? |
| 6 | How could he even think that , let alone say it ? |
| 7 | Wilson 's claim in 1902 that 40 per cent of NFSU members were foreign was illustrative of his conviction that only by protecting foreigners could he also protect British nationals . |
| 8 | Could he also tell me whether he said on 16 December 1983 : ’ We are committed to a non-nuclear defence policy ? ’ |
| 9 | Only with incredible luck , against all the odds , could he reasonably hope to make a safe exit from Russian soil and reach safe ground from which the Americans might be able to extricate him in one piece . |
| 10 | But what more could he reasonably expect of her ? |
| 11 | How could he just — |
| 12 | Could he just make sure though that in his plans by defining community care and by by that I mean social care as opposed to health care , in a certain way . |
| 13 | Why could he not be walking with me here ? |
| 14 | If he was an anti-communist , could he not be some kind of spy or agent of the American government ? |
| 15 | Could he not be taken from here , still aslumber ? |
| 16 | Could he not open his eyes on a better scene , a less sordid spectacle ? |
| 17 | Why could he not be a Duke as well , or even something common , like a Captain of Arms or a hostler 's lackey ? ’ |
| 18 | How could he not recognize his own brother ? |
| 19 | What could he not accomplish ? |
| 20 | Could he not have issued a warning ? " |
| 21 | So how could he not be far more upset than he would admit at the thought of the gap it would leave in his life and the prospect of probably never seeing his father again ? |
| 22 | A momentary disorientation took him when he found that not only could he not move , but that he was staring straight up at the sky , and there appeared to be no ground underneath him . |
| 23 | Could he not deliver just one of them , he had asked , looking at Goibniu slyly from the corners of his eyes . |
| 24 | Could he not withdraw the promise on finding himself in straitened circumstances , or on falling out with P , or because she had married a wealthy man ? suppose then that D's promise is to pay the money ’ so long as you remain unmarried . ’ |
| 25 | He must have felt it too — how could he not when he was so close ; how could he fail to pick up the reckless drumming of her senses ? |
| 26 | Could he not trust her a little , just a little ? |
| 27 | Could he not see how much good it was doing his godmother ? |
| 28 | Could he not have married you ? ’ |
| 29 | Could he not excoriate |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Kathleen , how could he not love you ? |