Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] he could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized he could not catch them , because they had nearly got to the ship , but I did not wait to see the end of that adventure . |
| 2 | I suggested that he might like to go and have a talk with his crew , I did not want to send him back to his squadron , but with a new navigator I believed he could eventually forge a good Pathfinding crew . |
| 3 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 4 | He had returned from Addis Ababa two days before , apparently cured , but his throat had now flared up again and when I arrived he could hardly speak . |
| 5 | Roland gave me a new tennis racquet ( which I know he could n't afford because Moonstone is ‘ on the brink ’ ) which is a great improvement on my last one , and an encouragement to get out on court . |
| 6 | Then I discovered he could n't read music . |
| 7 | I reckon he could easily have shot 64 again in the last round , but he could n't hole a putt . |
| 8 | ‘ Except for one or two episodes that I suppose he could n't miss , just to try , there was never a chance . |
| 9 | I remembered a banker friend of my parents who was on trial for having raped his twelve-year-old niece ; Father had tut-tutted and said , ‘ I suppose he could not help himself . ’ |
| 10 | I suppose he could even let units on behalf of owners , on an agency basis of course … |
| 11 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 12 | I knew he could n't resist being asked his professional opinion . |
| 13 | I knew he could not stay at my hotel . |
| 14 | It was none of my business , and I knew he could still feel the cold stone of that floor at the hotel while death hammered insistently just above his head . |
| 15 | I bet he could n't know whether it was gon na be good or but I bought it . |
| 16 | I bet he could n't get in the smaller ball than Fred can get you |
| 17 | If it picked up , if he finds what I think he could probably find us I mean he knows precisely what we want and |
| 18 | I said he could n't tell a line of dialogue from a line of coke and anyway his face was carved out of corned beef , and he threatened to punch me . |
| 19 | ‘ You mean he could n't pick up anyone grander , so he fell back on you . ’ |
| 20 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 21 | almost servant type you know , he tied himself to you and you feel he could n't do you enough for you |
| 22 | ‘ Are you saying he could n't take it , that he broke off the engagement ? ’ |
| 23 | For the most fleeting of moments , she knew humiliation , but then anger surged , and an aching triumph with it because she knew he could not deny her . |
| 24 | She had not wanted to love this man , especially when she knew he could never love her back . |
| 25 | She was under no illusions — she knew he could never feel the same way about her , she knew too that she was storing up heartbreak for herself . |
| 26 | You knew he could not pay and that we would have to . ’ |
| 27 | But the problem was n't even helped there because you see he could n't get up the stairs easily , because the wardrobe was in the way . |
| 28 | Halfway through rehearsals , we realized he could n't cut it . |
| 29 | Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder , they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues . |
| 30 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |