Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , allowing the appeal ( Lord Lowry dissenting ) , that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner of goods or consented to by him could amount to an appropriation of the goods within section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 where such authority or consent had been obtained by deception ; and that , accordingly , the defendant had been rightly convicted of theft ( post , pp. 1073F , 1076G–H , 1080C–F , 1081C–D , 1109F , 1111E ) . |
| 2 | Indeed in May nineteen ninety Mr gave up his appointment as a teacher in order that he could care for the plaintiff full time . |
| 3 | In particular the degree of negative control he could exert over the actions of the government , his ability to obstruct change , remained important until well after the end of this period . |
| 4 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 5 | Before he could move for the doors , they were flung open imperiously , revealing a wide-eyed , agonised Auguste outside . |
| 6 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 7 | The quality of passionate and intelligent realism he could bring to a part was not in demand until many years later . |
| 8 | He could hide behind the door and club them down one by one when they came in . |
| 9 | It was the only crumb of comfort he could salvage from the ordeal . |
| 10 | He could sit on a terrace in the French quarter , sipping wine , and feel he was in France . |
| 11 | When it mattered , Leonard was a learner ; he could sit at a man 's feet and absorb completely . |
| 12 | He angled his chair so that he could sit by the fire and watch her . |
| 13 | And then he looked around to find someone he could send to the omda . |
| 14 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 15 | Then there was the time Joe Hulme asked if he could stay for the weekend in his native Lancashire after an away match at Bolton . |
| 16 | He could stay at the Palm Springs home of Walter Annenberg , newspaper publisher , millionaire , friend of the Shah 's friend Richard Nixon , former ambassador tot he court of St James , Sullivan was told to convey the invitation in the name of the president and to ask how many people would be travelling with the Shah . |
| 17 | ‘ Wow , ’ Wayne said , obviously wishing that he could stay in the front and eavesdrop . |
| 18 | He could walk with the help of a nurse , but very slowly and with great difficulty , as his balance was extremely poor . |
| 19 | He he could walk down the street without people looking and staring at him . |
| 20 | More precisely still , it was because he was not in the dark about God that he could walk in the dark about Isaac . |
| 21 | Eventually reason prevailed , at least on the part of Prince , who requested of Jardine ‘ any information ’ he could offer for the preservation of Gould 's precious collection . |
| 22 | He could talk about the mouth of the river Rhone and about the influence of the Atlantic rivers on the tides of the ocean . |
| 23 | If the horse recovers well from his Longchamp experience he could head for the Japan Cup , for which he was entered yesterday . |
| 24 | Drained by his ranting and lulled by the way he could float in the starsuit , just touching the padded interior , he drifted into and out of sleep like a man wandering through the rooms of an empty house . |
| 25 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 26 | He could stand by the footplate of a steam locomotive knowing at once the names of driver and fireman who , for their part , knew that he had a very good idea of what each did and how he did it . |
| 27 | He could pass for a European , an Italian or a Frenchman from one of the Southern regions , like Provence . |
| 28 | He could pass for a native of Sweden certainly , and probably of Norway and of Denmark . |
| 29 | He could tell by the tone of her voice that today she would be counting , and woe betide him if he failed to reach the kitchen before his allotted twenty seconds were used up . |
| 30 | All he could distinguish was the sound rather than the words , but he could tell by the tone of her voice that Senga was n't taking it in . |