Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I believe I could love him in the other way , his way , now . |
| 2 | When I came up to him , he stood stiffly aside so I could precede him up the stairs . |
| 3 | I reckoned I could blackmail him into a job . |
| 4 | I ca n't think hitting him but I do n't think I could put him over the edge . |
| 5 | ‘ I could get him on the radio and ask for you if you like . ’ |
| 6 | His leg seemed to have stopped bleeding , or very nearly , and he could n't have severed an artery or he 'd have bled to death by now , but all the same there had to be a pretty serious wound under the cloth of his trousers and the faster I could get him to a doctor the better . |
| 7 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 8 | ‘ I could phone him with a problem and he had such insight that he could steer me through it , although he knew very little of the problems over here . ’ |
| 9 | I ask him if I could describe him as a lucky little wanker who became very rich and famous through doing very little apart from being his baffled , fitful , daft self . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , by Wednesday I 'm clear of the Committee , and I could take him to a Regional Office . |
| 11 | We will take it steadily and I could see him as a Festival hope . |
| 12 | If I could see him at the back I 'll er , I 'll just get the question a bit more clearer and I 'm sure I can help . |
| 13 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |
| 14 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 15 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 16 | The stark desire in his face threatened to take what strength she had left , nor did he make any attempt to hide the blatant response of his body to that consuming , passionate kiss , continuing to hold her so tightly that she could feel him with every part of her being , could still taste him inside her mouth . |
| 17 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 18 | She could cow him at a glance . |
| 19 | The queer thought : Doctor , she could read him like a book . |
| 20 | He was openly laughing at her , and she wished she could push him into the sea . |
| 21 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 22 | She trusted him to look after the Post 's interests before he sold the story to any other outlets , but she did not know whether she could trust him with the story . |
| 23 | She could see him as a prototype for the border entrepreneur trapped here in the decline and fall of this precarious city , the market-stallholder , the baths attendant , the potter , the vegetable grower , any one of the native opportunists who had rallied to serve and exploit this hothouse community of time-expired settlers and pay-happy leave-men . |
| 24 | She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos . |
| 25 | She could hear him in the room , yet he did n't answer . |
| 26 | She could put him into the scale alongside Joseph and Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse whom she believed culpable of murder , or she could give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 27 | Hey , you could tape him in the night so he can believe you next time , that he snores ! |
| 28 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 29 | You could drag him into the den . |
| 30 | And if you could watch him for a while longer , you might discover just what he — a descendant of herd-living , company-loving , fast and flighty wild horses — feels about domestication . |