Example sentences of "and he could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack could see hard frost gleaming on the windows and he could feel the bleak coldness of the beds inside himself . |
| 2 | Innate within him was the ability to put committee members at their ease , so that they could give of their best , and he could abstract the maximum amount of information . |
| 3 | It was no more than three hundred yards distant , and he could see the great flattened scimitars of its horns swaying above the grass as it advanced , scenting the breeze at every step . |
| 4 | It was ajar and he could see the young woman busying herself with chores before reopening the shop for the afternoon trade . |
| 5 | The door of the Captain 's cabin was open and he could see the bearded hijacker sitting inside . |
| 6 | To his right the ground rose gently towards the southern cliffs and he could see the dark mouth of a concrete pillbox , undemolished since the war , and as seemingly indestructible as the great hulks of wave-battered concrete , remnants of the old fortifications which lay half-submerged in the sand along part of the beach . |
| 7 | And then , early one morning , when the affair was still unsettled and he could see the Indian girl asleep on a sofa with one arm through the strap of her handbag and the sari drawn over it , a delayed flight from Jamaica arrived with twelve unaccompanied West Indian children on board . |
| 8 | Past the entrance to a farmyard rutted deep in soft mud , and he could see the slipped roofing of the barns where the fallen tiles had been replaced by corrugated iron . |
| 9 | The house was quite high on the slopes and he could see the main road down into the town , and behind that the mountains on the other side of the valley sweeping up into the changing skies . |
| 10 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
| 11 | And he could attack the filled-in holes they 'd done in Upper Street earlier this morning . |
| 12 | Opposite and a little to the right were the male and female lavatories , and he could hear the occasional feet , light or heavy , hurried or dilatory , of passing members of staff , and hear the swing of the two doors . |
| 13 | The rough-cast stairway was dark , but there were lights further on down and he could hear the faint strains of the show tape playing over the speakers in the club proper . |