Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , though , he admitted he could hardly concentrate on Celtic for thinking about Ibrox . |
| 2 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 3 | At fourteen he found he could also copy perfectly any handwriting placed in front of him . |
| 4 | The wind caught at him , blew at him , a gusty enemy he found he could hardly overcome . |
| 5 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 6 | he says we could either put it forward because the windows are obviously a lot wider |
| 7 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 8 | It was a question of how he believed he could best attain his major political purposes . |
| 9 | That he reckoned he could still do . |
| 10 | It was hard for the Major to see the little procession that moved away from the Administration block towards the heart of the camp , but he fancied he could still make out one dark head amongst the hazing image of the retreating column . |
| 11 | Sniffing the moist morning air , he fancied he could still detect sickly traces of the opium smoked by his guest , and his scowl deepened . |
| 12 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 13 | On 13 December 842 , at the palace of Quierzy , Charles married Ermentrude , niece of Adalard , because " he thought he could thereby win over to himself [ the support of ] the majority of the lesser aristocracy ( plebs ) " . |
| 14 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 15 | He thought he could simply invite her to sleep with him and she would obey like a lunatic . |
| 16 | Peering closely at the page , though , he thought he could still make out the shapes of the words , or enough shapes to allow a quick and hostile mind to piece together the whole sentence . |
| 17 | A testator who had instituted Sempronia and Maevia heirs to a tenth each of his estate and a foster-child to the remainder appointed a curator for his foster-child since he thought he could rightly do so . |
| 18 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 19 | Daddy had n't saved any money because he thought he could always make more . |
| 20 | He knew he could never talk himself straight with you . |
| 21 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 22 | He knew he could always go to his mother for help , but pride stopped him . |
| 23 | He knew he could really have done with a saw . |
| 24 | I was sure he knew I could barely contain myself or restrain my trembling fingers that longed to run their tips along the insides of those meaty thighs that were spreadeagled enticingly over the edge of his seat . |
| 25 | He knew I could well hold my own . |
| 26 | Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so . |
| 27 | The feeling of crisis was growing in him and he felt he could barely breathe . |
| 28 | Charles found it a strain and was relieved when the meal was over and he felt he could decently leave . |
| 29 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
| 30 | As he spoke he could almost feel the dagger looks from Bliss piercing his back . |