Example sentences of "[that] he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that he could make a speech — that is , he could think on his feet , and not be at a loss for words . |
| 2 | He half hoped she would give him one of them by mistake so that he could make a scene , but she did n't . |
| 3 | He rang Davidson to confirm that he could make the eight a. m. appointment . |
| 4 | Even Denis Healey knew that he could make the pips squeak only after the mortgage has been paid . |
| 5 | He carried no weapon save his own sharp needles and scissors , but it occurred to him that he could make do with the slivers of glass from the broken sarcophagus . |
| 6 | He learnt that he could make love and come both in haste and with impressive slowness , for five minutes or for three hours , without asking either for more or for less time from his partner but fitting in with their timing . |
| 7 | I found it incredible that he could make money doing that . |
| 8 | And she knew that this outing had been contrived by him so that he could make progress with her . |
| 9 | ‘ They do n't mind so much now I 've got a few trophies in a case that they can show their friends and boast about it , ’ Carlos Francis recollected his parents ' change of posture after it became evident that he could make a career out of soccer . |
| 10 | He proved that he could make that journey on a primitive craft . |
| 11 | The commander of a ship , however , had additional perquisites which added to the value of his appointment , for it has been claimed that he could make as much as £1,500 in a single voyage from the fares paid by passengers , while he even had the right to sell for his own profit at the end of the voyage the dunnage , that is the bamboos and rattans employed to keep the cargo from shifting . |
| 12 | Some months earlier , in the autumn of 1182 , young Henry had once again asked his father to give him a principality , Normandy , so that he could make proper provision for his own knights . |
| 13 | Indeed , most clients would have shown their appreciation , at the time of sale , of the dealer 's fairness in pointing out that he could make no guarantees . |
| 14 | Of his voice , it was said that he could make himself heard from the harbour mouth to his Aunt Bridget 's kitchen in a full-blown gale ; but for all his thunder and lightning , his thigh-slapping guffaws and crude sense of humour , there was in Harry a man who needed the love of a woman , a man who , having been brought up by an uncle with strictly puritan views , longed for the approval and admiration of his elders . |
| 15 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 16 | Without this kind of analytical framework , respecting the complex levels of mediation involved and their relative autonomy , Elvis becomes simply the plaything of naked political forces ( rebellious/manipulative ) ; and the fact that the young rock 'n' roller sang ballads from the start , that the older Hollywood star could still sing rock 'n' roll songs and was still respected by rock 'n' roll fans , that his ‘ blues ’ were ‘ romantic ’ ( a kind of fantasy ) , his ballads often ‘ realistic ’ ( given flesh ) , or that he could make boogification ironic — all this is inexplicable . |
| 17 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 18 | My master finally realized that he could make a fortune by showing me to people all over the country . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Andy had discovered windsurfing and that he could make more money in a day teaching it than he could in a week in his other job . |
| 20 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 21 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 22 | Well , she felt in a fighting mood , and if he thought that he could make a fool of her in front of his girlfriend then he was in for a big surprise . |
| 23 | It was n't fair that he could make her senses rocket in such a devastating way . |
| 24 | Unfortunately the discovery that he could make her respond to even his lightest caress was enough to make the ride into Winchester a damned uncomfortable one . |
| 25 | She was amazed to realise now just how detailed her dream of him had been and annoyed that he could make her feel so uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to last night . |
| 26 | Dorcas had changed the wiring so that he could make it ring whenever he liked . |
| 27 | He worried about that , at first , until Shaffer persuaded him that he could make enough of the dialogue at his disposal , through the sheer weight of the quality of his performance . |
| 28 | Buster felt that he could make the vehicle — which was a very dismal thing to look at — a real sort of Bonny and Clyde affair . |
| 29 | What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look ? |
| 30 | Er things got that he could make his mother , the other way round . |