Example sentences of "he could [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could even walk about the room , leaning on Franca 's arm , and hoped to go , similarly supported , as far as the river when the weather improved . |
| 2 | In other words , he could n't benefit from the property or the dividends on the shares , or any part of the gift . ’ |
| 3 | But he got frustrated because , although he was playing well , he could n't compete with the younger players . |
| 4 | He could n't go on the corkscrew he could n't go up on the ship he could n't go on anything . |
| 5 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |
| 6 | At times , he could n't drink in the same bar as his new white team-mates but there were no barriers to him on the cricket field . |
| 7 | He could n't warm to the notion of a Gooseneck-Sunil love affair : the potential for pain seemed too great . |
| 8 | A spokesman for Tewkesbury Council said he could n't comment on the parents plans to sue . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh felt impatient for the arrival of the forensic biologist , although he knew he could n't hope for the answer , not yet . |
| 10 | Once in New York he could n't disappear into the city either . |
| 11 | Stefan knew he could n't cope with the traumas of continuing where they had left off . |
| 12 | If it was some horrible misunderstanding , he could n't talk to the girl to try to clear it up ; instead , he had to be kept in prison to prevent any possibility of contact . |
| 13 | Obviously he could n't talk to the police , and it would suit his book better if Vecchi was caught by someone outside his own organisation . |
| 14 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 15 | He could n't turn in the narrow road here because of the car parked opposite . |
| 16 | For a moment he could n't see through the train of bubbles left by the spear , which hit the fish dead centre and an inch behind the jaw hinge . |
| 17 | He could n't see round the next bend , he must record , tapes were periscopes , his only chance , and the slow ink stolen and the wheels turning , and everything remembered , everything proved , he was whispering now , ‘ Why five , ’ he was whispering , ‘ is n't one enough ? ’ and a voice came back , a woman 's , Sharon 's , ‘ One what ? ’ |
| 18 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 19 | Yet he , the archer , might have gone back there to check again after all and if he had he would know I was alive , but he would never find me where I was now , deep in impenetrable shadow along a path he could n't follow in the dark . |
| 20 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 21 | Whatever he might do , he could n't get past the postmistress at Cong , who acts as operator , and runs the whole village . |
| 22 | But the problem was n't even helped there because you see he could n't get up the stairs easily , because the wardrobe was in the way . |
| 23 | After all , if he could n't get into the England team while the ban was in force , what chance has he got once a world-class player like Gatting becomes available again ? |
| 24 | He wondered what he would do if he could n't get into the house … well , he supposed he could go back to Joseph 's place , spend the night there and then hurry home at first light , when the servants would be up . |
| 25 | ‘ His pass was confiscated the next day and that meant he could n't get into the base to work and lost his job . |
| 26 | was very cross that he could n't get into the room . |
| 27 | You should have seen the state he was getting in when he cos he could n't get round the bloody corner . |
| 28 | he 'd come to get a cloth , they 're in the front room with Jim , the , he could n't get in the door , they 're saying , we , I want , we want Beethoven music , we want Mozart music , so Jim 's in there with them and they will not leave the cabinet of the music centre |
| 29 | Fuck he could n't get in the |
| 30 | I bet he could n't get in the smaller ball than Fred can get you |