Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] could [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colours also may get distorted as the eye lens gets yellower with age ; in some pictures of Mulready he believed he could demonstrate this defect . |
| 2 | If he thought he could do that he needed to be put right . |
| 3 | Far away he thought he could see some goats grazing . |
| 4 | But what I mean is , he did n't have that high an opinion of himself , just because he knew he could have any one of us for the asking . |
| 5 | No doubt , he felt he could take that in his stride . |
| 6 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 7 | You would he said you could cut that tree down when you 're ready . |
| 8 | He said you could cut that tree . |
| 9 | He said he could do that in a few minutes after getting to his office , and I arranged to ring him later in the morning . |
| 10 | He wished she could understand that without having to be told . |