Example sentences of "he could [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the doctor helped Mr Mansur , he could be charged under a new Michigan law that makes it a crime to assist a person to commit suicide . |
| 2 | He was remanded in custody for enquiries to be made if he could be sent to a probation hostel . |
| 3 | I du n no , I du n no whether he 's erm he really could be , I mean he could be the thing is he could be compared to a hobo . |
| 4 | It seduced his imagination : woolly wisps streaming past told him nothing ; he could be flying into a mountainside … or diving … or two seconds away from a collision … |
| 5 | It will now be for the Home Secretary to decided when he 'd released although he could be transferred to a hospital in France . |
| 6 | Conscious , like his rivals , that he could be seen as a Southern carpet bagger , he makes much fuss of the Labour stalwarts . |
| 7 | It 's the latest setback for Wright amid fears that he could be sidelined with a hernia . |
| 8 | He could be looking at a device which at any moment could be activated by a radio-operated switch . |
| 9 | If David Cork carries on playing like that , then he could be looking at a new contract instead of being on the transfer list . |
| 10 | In his late teens , there were still signs of puppy fat , and his rounded face sat under an unruly head of hair trimmed to the current style , though not especially trendy , and he could be lost in a crowd as being just another boy on the block ; unassuming and unspecial . |
| 11 | It was beyond possibility that he could be recognized as a policeman , yet he had not even been given a coquettish smile . |
| 12 | ‘ He could be used as a figurehead . |
| 13 | But he could be pricked like a balloon . ’ |
| 14 | It may well be that he could be described as a statutory tenant ; but that description would not itself accurately define his precise position , for he was a statutory tenant against whom a final order had been made , under which possession was to be delivered up on a fixed date , 3 April 1950 , he having died on the previous 8 March . |
| 15 | As late as the 1760s an influential theorist could still argue that an ambassador who , on his own initiative , encouraged sedition within the state to which he was accredited , could be punished by it even with death , while if he had acted on the orders of his master he could be held as a hostage until the latter had given satisfaction . |
| 16 | But as Shaffer remembers : ‘ He could be talking about a death and get himself very worked up about what he was saying , very passionate about whatever made him worried or angry . |
| 17 | He could be depicted in a number of animal forms including the hippopotamus and the crocodile . |
| 18 | Like every other officer cadet he had spent three weeks with every hair shaved from his body so that he could be immersed in a tank of oxygenated fluorocarbon . |
| 19 | He recognized that he could be accused of a conservative , ‘ indeed reactionary ’ , direction for the universities , and of condemning the public sector to second-class status , but ‘ unrepentant I shall believe that in the long run this represents the logical development of both the Robbins principle and the binary policy ’ . |
| 20 | If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog . |
| 21 | If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog . |
| 22 | Alternatively he could be taken before a magistrate for punishment . |
| 23 | Security was tighter here than it had been in the Union building , and Reynolds had to be signed in by Diane before he could be issued with a visitor 's pass . |