Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] he could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I reckon he could easily have shot 64 again in the last round , but he could n't hole a putt . |
| 5 | I suppose he could even let units on behalf of owners , on an agency basis of course … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If it picked up , if he finds what I think he could probably find us I mean he knows precisely what we want and |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had not wanted to love this man , especially when she knew he could never love her back . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Afterwards , though , he admitted he could hardly concentrate on Celtic for thinking about Ibrox . |
| 12 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 13 | At fourteen he found he could also copy perfectly any handwriting placed in front of him . |
| 14 | The wind caught at him , blew at him , a gusty enemy he found he could hardly overcome . |
| 15 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 16 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 17 | It was a question of how he believed he could best attain his major political purposes . |
| 18 | That he reckoned he could still do . |
| 19 | It was hard for the Major to see the little procession that moved away from the Administration block towards the heart of the camp , but he fancied he could still make out one dark head amongst the hazing image of the retreating column . |
| 20 | Sniffing the moist morning air , he fancied he could still detect sickly traces of the opium smoked by his guest , and his scowl deepened . |
| 21 | On 13 December 842 , at the palace of Quierzy , Charles married Ermentrude , niece of Adalard , because " he thought he could thereby win over to himself [ the support of ] the majority of the lesser aristocracy ( plebs ) " . |
| 22 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 23 | He thought he could simply invite her to sleep with him and she would obey like a lunatic . |
| 24 | Peering closely at the page , though , he thought he could still make out the shapes of the words , or enough shapes to allow a quick and hostile mind to piece together the whole sentence . |
| 25 | A testator who had instituted Sempronia and Maevia heirs to a tenth each of his estate and a foster-child to the remainder appointed a curator for his foster-child since he thought he could rightly do so . |
| 26 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 27 | Daddy had n't saved any money because he thought he could always make more . |
| 28 | He knew he could never talk himself straight with you . |
| 29 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 30 | He knew he could always go to his mother for help , but pride stopped him . |