Example sentences of "he could [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a big man , he could move with surprising speed when he wanted to . |
| 2 | All his friends noticed that no matter how drunk he was , his hand remained steady and he could draw with astonishing skill and sensitivity . |
| 3 | It was the best he could do at short notice . |
| 4 | The other way in which he could compensate for unfavourable power relations was through effective public relations . |
| 5 | For an officer in Northern Nigeria to complain that his emir refused to take his advice was to put his career at the gravest possible risk ; he could expect in due course to be moved to ‘ easier work ’ — in other words , to administrative oblivion . |
| 6 | … a boy or youth who is induced by means of gifts whether in money or in kind to participate in homosexual behaviour as a source of easy money or as a means of enjoying material comforts or other pleasures beyond those which he could expect by decent behaviour , and we have encountered cases where this has happened . |
| 7 | The artist who painted in the eyes gave power to the image but was in turn filled with dangerous emanations which had to be washed off before he could return to ordinary life . |
| 8 | He was proud of the fact that he could switch from serious drama to the comedy of radio and the ‘ Carry On ’ film . |
| 9 | He could vanish into thin air . |
| 10 | Leo would be coming back to New York now to work in a hospital where he could specialize in tropical medicine . |
| 11 | The ground floor windows were low enough to look in and he could see into the-little office , which was empty . |
| 12 | Would Sir Alexander Ramsay , of his goodness and in his leal duty to the King 's Grace and his Regent , come to Lochmaben Castle in Annandale at his earliest convenience , bringing with him such armed and horsed supporters as he could raise at short notice ? |
| 13 | He knew he could survive without ill effect for a week or more without food but he sensed he was weakening . |
| 14 | The guy was talking to Pete , he thought he could , he develop , he could develop for coarse fishing |
| 15 | Some early critics of Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ style thought that he was stupid and incompetent ; but we have already seen that he could write with due regard to eighteenth-century decorum . |
| 16 | Even the loss of Conway castle in his absence , a ridiculous incident enough , and costly , he could turn to appreciative laughter , and never grudge that the laughter , at second-hand if not directly , was against himself . |