Example sentences of "he could [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could picture himself at the court of King Louis , accepting the thanks of his grateful monarch . |
| 2 | He had mistakenly believed that total retirement from first-class cricket was necessary before he could avail himself of the pension fund for West Indies Test cricketers . |
| 3 | Frankie wriggled free so that he could remove himself from the confrontation . |
| 4 | He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters . |
| 5 | Once in he could lose himself among the excited household , and never be in one place long enough to be an object of suspicion , until he could find a means of encountering Ralf Isambard alone . |
| 6 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |