Example sentences of "[noun] he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had access to Hammad Haiba whose mother 's sister was Salah 's wife 's sister-in-law ; and with Salha on his side he could redouble the pressure : Hammad was Salha 's grandson . |
| 2 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 3 | But while he still had legs he could run . |
| 4 | He knew that the platform was there , but in the nightside blackness he could see nothing at first . |
| 5 | From his bedroom he could see Macleod 's Tables , two flat-topped hills , Healaval Mhor and Healaval Bheag to the south-west . |
| 6 | The fact that a peasant 's farm buildings were in the pueblo limited the number of cattle and hens he could keep ( it may be quite difficult to buy an egg in a town of 3,000 inhabitants ) and was one more factor inhibiting a satisfactory balance between animal and crop husbandry . |
| 7 | Yet in those eyes he could see fear . |
| 8 | She came towards him ; in her eyes he could see the dread of what was to be . |
| 9 | as if he had X-ray eyes he could visualise the metal cylinder concealed within the bag , the pointed bomb with its tail fins reclining at an angle of forty-five degrees . |
| 10 | It was really done with much relish , and to prove his efficiency in all branches of His Majesty 's Navy and Fishing Fleets , Lord Shelley went into Uxbridge , bought the best cod he could find , and insisted on cooking it himself and serving it for dinner . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Over its roof he could see the forecourt patterned with parking lots , the police cars tidily aligned and what looked like a mortuary van . |
| 13 | For the same outlay he could have hired 120 childminders at £2 an hour or ten secretaries at £25 an hour . |
| 14 | an interim award will be made if a defender can meet the obligation either from his own funds or from funds he could dispose of at will . |
| 15 | It gave him , too , if he wanted it , an unthreatened view of passing life : from the terrace he could train his opera glasses on the pleasure-steamers taking Sunday lunchers to La Bouille . |
| 16 | As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so . |
| 17 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 18 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 19 | For many of his supporters he could do no wrong and any semblance of wrong having been done was explained as part of the ecumenical conspiracy to defeat true Protestantism . |
| 20 | Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets . |
| 21 | The number of sales the trader could make was limited to the number of cars he could get . |
| 22 | By following Andy Kyle he could keep just ahead of the final match , make a progress round the entire course and keep an eye on his stake . |
| 23 | Dexter flicked through the files with all the concentration he could muster . |
| 24 | With Wagner in mind he could say it now . |
| 25 | It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers . |
| 26 | As he bent down and began to force his way through the undergrowth he could taste alcohol in his mouth . |
| 27 | I told Malpass he could find me at Stuart Street and , for a couple of streets , I did head that way . |
| 28 | If he went back with Mrs Wright he could nip up to Jubilee Wood , check his hide and maybe get his helmet back off Lee . |
| 29 | In the event , Ramsay himself made the most useful contributions to the debate , with the young Steward and Moray backing him , the Regent out of his depth and almost pathetically grateful for any guidance he could get . |
| 30 | The slanting sun was behind her , and as she stood there in the doorway he could see the outline of those smooth , slim thighs through the fine fabric . |