Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the old system , if a player was dissatisfied with his terms at a League club he could move to a Southern League team at the end of a season without waiting for a fee to be agreed . |
| 2 | He marched out of the barracks to make his way to the station — he wondered how long it would be before he could walk at a normal pace . |
| 3 | Or else , in different mood , he could choose from a Modest Defence of Public Stews , or an Essay upon Whoring , a Dissertation on Wheedling , Flash Songs , etc. , a Dissertation upon Pissing , The Costly Whore , a comical history , and The Sad Effects of Sin . |
| 4 | ither way , like the ebullient newly married Severiano Ballesteros of two years ago , he could ski to a new crest this season . |
| 5 | Either way , like the ebullient newly married Severiano Ballesteros of two years ago , he could ski to a new crest this season . |
| 6 | Kant , approaching morals with the same demand for certainty , was radically sceptical about not the reality but the value of spontaneous inclination , and convinced himself that he could start from a Categorical Imperative wholly detached from it . |
| 7 | Ever since 1947 some Gaullists had recognized that the General 's willingness to prolong his role beyond periods of acute crisis — the only periods in which he could function as a consensual leader — risked compromising his mystique . |
| 8 | He looks as though he could do with a decent meal , ’ Markby observed . |
| 9 | He could do with a warm bed . |
| 10 | Cos you can only use them up to about four I would think cos other , other than that they get a bit too big for them do n't they ? he could do with a little slide in the garden |
| 11 | I thought well he 's got a couple of kids so he could do with a little girl . |
| 12 | Geoff Link had a firm grasp of classroom techniques and a deep knowledge of children , so he could cope with a small part of his week in exploration of a subject matter with which he had only a tenuous acquaintance . |
| 13 | He could get into a stable but was unable to get out . ’ |
| 14 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 15 | But from the outset he had felt jittery about Event : it was not a project that he could trust to a dependable partner , as he could trust the record company to Simon Draper . |
| 16 | He wanted no more showy mount ; for all his notably individual looks , he could jog like a pedlar and fade anonymously into any background when he chose . |
| 17 | He could win on a wide variety of venues on a broad spectrum of methods . |
| 18 | To Wagner , therefore , he could write in a different tone : " I prefer not to say a word about the German victories : these are the letters of fire on the wall , intelligible to all peoples . " |
| 19 | Because altruistic love was germane to both , he could argue for a perfect union . |