Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joyce called together such members as he could gather of the National Socialist League and its intellectual offshoot the Carlyle Club . |
| 2 | John wanted to be in bed so that the night would be over quickly and he could move off the next morning ; Mr Stephens had a neighbour who would lend them a handcart and John wanted to be able to push the furniture the eight miles uphill to Crossbridge , settle it , and return the handcart the same day . |
| 3 | I know he could walk in the next lesson and things would be perfectly OK . |
| 4 | Another sees Riesenhuber in charge of a new ministry of the environment , where he could head off the political challenge of the Green movement which enters the West German parliament for the first time after the election successes . |
| 5 | He could choose between the civil law and the law of trusts , but there can be no doubt that the law of trusts was superior . |
| 6 | Robert Hardy says he re-arranged his schedule to make sure he could appear in the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 7 | He could smell above the all-pervading redolence of incense , the faint acrid smoke of the candle . |
| 8 | He could start with the federal government itself . |
| 9 | My old man occasionally joined us on a Saturday morning , but only to get some cash off Granpa so that he could go to the Black Bull and spend it all with his mate Bert Shorrocks . |
| 10 | Duke Michael could have friends to stay with him in the new castle , but he could go into the old castle when he wanted to be alone . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level . |
| 12 | And he thought he could do without the high-interest assistance of French or Swiss bankers . |
| 13 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 14 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
| 15 | Then , he could soak in the vivid feeling of the song until the sweat stood out in gobbets on his forehead and his veins swelled in his neck like vines and Nunzia and Maria Filippa listening would wring their hands , invoking the protection of all the saints against that winged demon Fate flapping at his back . |
| 16 | It was not something that he could admit to the outside world , though . |
| 17 | Chaucer 's prototype , the Miller of Trumpington , was such a well-trained rogue that he could distinguish between the various degrees of filching ; and he could steal as occasion served him , either ‘ courteously ’ or right ‘ outrageously ’ . |
| 18 | Even Idris who er they 're desperate for but he Idris did n't think you know , he could cope with the four churches . |
| 19 | He was born deaf , dumb and blind and was also mentally-deficient , and died in 1902 before he could accede to the bewildering duties and titles that went with the Dukedom of Norfolk , Earl Marshal of England . |
| 20 | Sylvia , he felt , he could sense through the creaking , sleeping inn , was available , perhaps even awake . |
| 21 | The Collector had posted all the men he could spare on the upper , north-facing verandah . |
| 22 | So excited had Mr Wolski become — though he kept quiet about it at the Zoo — that he had taken down his atlas of the British Isles so he could mark off the various places the eagle was seen . |
| 23 | But when he said so , hoping that they would find him a job away from the Zoo , they said instead that if he wanted he could work through the remaining years to his retirement as general helper and sweeper . |
| 24 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |
| 25 | The only way he could escape from the harsh realities of life was to lose himself in books , allowing his imagination to take over , seeing himself as the characters he read about . |
| 26 | With the next general election not due until May 1960 , he had three years in which to establish himself as Prime Minister , provided he could ride through the political fallout from Suez . |
| 27 | The cultural budget , which stood at FFr3 billion in 1981 , is now FFr13 billion ( £1.3 billion ; $2.3 billion ) thirteen years later , precisely because he could count on the unconditional support of President Mitterrand , who is not only an acknowledged lover of both the arts and literature , but also requires an element of grandeur to be orchestrated and injected into large-scale projects ( see p.12 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I reckon he could play in the Premier League and I 've no hesitation in saying that . ’ |
| 29 | The Marshal crossed the sunny fore-court towards the shadow of the stone archway and into his office , where he could take off the dark glasses which he always had to wear when the sun was out . |
| 30 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |