Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah you could , you could perhaps get him on that , yes . |
| 2 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 3 | Faldo ruined his chances with a 76 on Saturday — and even a 67 on the last day could only put him in joint second place . |
| 4 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 5 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 6 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
| 7 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 8 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 9 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
| 10 | Political theories could not provide him with any answers . |
| 11 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
| 12 | I just thought , yeah , I could just get him into big shit now ! |
| 13 | Life grew greyer by the day , but Gina could always surprise him with new horrors . |
| 14 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 15 | But I could n't leave him like that , his back and legs bare . |
| 16 | He was right , but she could n't leave him like this . |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 18 | She found she could n't tell him after all . |
| 19 | So we could n't fit him in either , so we 've actually sold Marvin sadly to Poole , which erm he 'll lead those to a good team I think . |
| 20 | Derby winner Dr Devious also raced freely before weakening into 10th and jockey Chris McCarron , who replaced regular rider John Reid , reported afterwards : ‘ I could n't control him at all . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd been a gentleman , she could n't fault him on that . |
| 22 | Now we could n't have him in this year to give the others a chance so this is how you voted for the nineteen ninety three racing personality of the year on Channel Four and let's take it in reverse order starting with the person who finished fourth . |
| 23 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
| 24 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |
| 25 | The driver could n't find him at first as only the top of his helmet was visible . |
| 26 | I could n't keep him to any particular point — he kept slipping from one subject to another without seeming to realize it . ’ |
| 27 | and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so . |