Example sentences of "he could [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 2 | He held it like a sword , perhaps imagining the gutting and the killing he could perform with this weapon which had once been used to carve the image of a woman in the land . |
| 3 | Because see he could draw on this table then you see if we leave it . |
| 4 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 5 | Her doctor had told her that there was nothing he could do for this problem , so she decided on private treatment from a doctor that a friend recommended . |
| 6 | ‘ He wanted to get the matters cleared up once and for all so he could return to this country in future with a clear conscience , ’ said Mr Spain . |
| 7 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 8 | The only bed he could claim at this point was in his penitential cell , but he went to it eagerly , glad to have a locked door between himself and the world . |
| 9 | It was n't really a question he could ask at this stage . |
| 10 | Gazzer 's mind was working desperately , selecting , then rejecting all of the possible ways he could respond to this surprise attack . |
| 11 | Swarf thought he could come to this world , steal the treasures of another race and escape with immortality and immeasurable riches . |