Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could link both with a talent for seeing the future and the past from a sideways , yet very humanly understandable , perspective in short , bringing out the magic of travelling in the fourth dimension to the audience sitting at home . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , he had proved he could stay up with the leaders , and he went to South Africa in March in good spirits . |
| 3 | I think that 's what turned him off club management — he knew what his interests were and decided he could walk away from the hassle . |
| 4 | He could walk now with a crutch , but the going would be slow , and they would spend the night in Lorpa . |
| 5 | Before he could head off for the dustbin , Elinor gripped his wrist firmly . |
| 6 | And it can be a hazardous time for the male — usually much smaller than the female — as he could end up as a meal if he 's not careful . |
| 7 | In case you had n't noticed , Ulster 's John Reid is having a barnstorming season and he could end up in the top four in the championship with over 100 winners . |
| 8 | In case you had n't noticed , Ulster 's John Reid is having a barnstorming season and he could end up in the top four in the championship with over 100 winners . |
| 9 | He wore a rich robe so encrusted with precious metals and stones that I wondered if he could stand up under the weight And his eyes were tiny , wet and somehow avid as he looked me over — wholly ignoring Mala — from head to foot . |
| 10 | It had not occurred to him that he could stand up in the pub , leave the beer half-drunk , the sandwich half-eaten , walk out into the London early evening . |
| 11 | Although studying and admiring Tchaikovsky 's methods of composition , Stravinsky felt he could break away from the stereotyped dance forms demanded by nineteenth-century balletmasters , His music was far more economical in melody and orchestral sound but his rhythmic phrasings and marked attention to newer dance forms inspired Ashton to break away from traditional class-room practices . |
| 12 | But he could cash in with a lucrative return against the 24-year-old German early next year . |
| 13 | Ellin says that he could tell even as a sixteen-year-old that " here was a writer who reduced stories to their absolute essence " and , he adds , the ending of each de Maupassant story is , when you think about it , " as inevitable as doom " . |
| 14 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 15 | About half an hour before the return of the aircraft on operational nights we would wake up the duty Met Officer , who was usually snoozing in the ante-room , so that he could mug up on the weather situation before the first of the returning crews came in . |
| 16 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 17 | The Chairman of the company told him he was most impressed with the contribution he 's made to the business , and that he could go right to the top if he keeps it up . |
| 18 | The difference was that he could go home at the end of every shift . |
| 19 | Apparently Chéron hid Modi 's clothes to keep him in , for Brancusi claimed to have rescued the stranded painter by buying him a jersey and a pair of trousers so that he could go out into the street . |
| 20 | He could step out into the ante-room , smoke a cigar , even take a walk around the block , and still be back in plenty of time to escort la Principessa safely through the crowd and out the door . |
| 21 | Or if by any chance the boat was not there , or too securely chained , he could swim across at a pinch . |
| 22 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 23 | So it was ‘ all change ’ on Pig Street : Solomon Mead replaced Elizabeth Titford in the little dwelling house which had served the Titford family so well over the years , and Thomas Tuck began to see what kind of commercial success he could make out of the vacated butcher and chandler 's shop next door . |
| 24 | It was just dawn in Shepherd 's Bush , and he could make out without the flame of a candle the narrow , tightly packed words crabbing across the paper . |
| 25 | Dexter pressed his nose against the grid of cold metal but all he could make out in the shadowy interior was a counter and the shimmer of clothes hung up in plastic bags . |
| 26 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |
| 27 | They were well out of sight of the broad flight of steps Quiss had entered the kitchens from , at a point where he could continue ahead into the mist , or turn either right or left , past huge fat stoves holding great rotund cauldrons of some bubbling , frothing liquid . |
| 28 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 29 | Perhaps he could run back into the Romano-British Collection , gibbering . |
| 30 | He remembered it from childhood , a lugubrious , undistinguished tune which , as a ten-year-old , he could pick out on the drawing-room piano . |