Example sentences of "he could [adv] [vb infin] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 2 | At least this time he could justifiably claim to be doing so in a higher cause than that of his own political survival . |
| 3 | Oddly , though he could never bear to be out of her sight and cried whenever she left him , as soon as his eldest sister , the faithful Cis , got him to her own home he ceased to cry . |
| 4 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 5 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |