Example sentences of "he could come " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threat to him could come from Paul Hourihan , who finished fourth on that occasion but was just eight centimetres adrift . |
| 2 | These purposeful wanderings in nearby London commons were the nearest he could come to the idealized world he had found in The Amateur Poacher . |
| 3 | She was a complete recluse , but one of us somehow got to know her so that he could come and count the nests in the heronry and explore the island . |
| 4 | He could come up here every day ! |
| 5 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |
| 6 | He could come back later , but tomorrow … |
| 7 | ‘ It was daddy said he could come . |
| 8 | Albert was the epitome of the wing-half of the 1920s because , not only was he a ferocious tackler and a prolific feeder of his forwards , but he could come upfield himself to great effect and possessed a smashing shot of his own , so that the ‘ Feebury specials ’ of the period generated a great deal of enthusiasm among Palace fans — and no little anxiety to opposing goalkeepers . |
| 9 | He could come out and jump well over seven metres on no training at all . |
| 10 | No motive — no motive that a sane man can understand anyway — and he could come from anywhere , Norwich , Ipswich , even London . |
| 11 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked him to play the most tortured , painful lead possible — the most horrible thing he could come up with ! ’ laughs Matthew . |
| 13 | Sien with a Cigar , sitting on the Ground by the Stove , executed in mixed media , was as close to a painting as he could come without the use of colour : pencil , black chalk , pen , and brush with sepia and white applied over a wash . |
| 14 | The only disadvantage of the job that he could come up with was the ‘ vulture capitalist ’ image with which he is clearly uncomfortable . |
| 15 | If he could do this then surely he could come down from the cross and save himself . |
| 16 | When I told him it was only for children who had something wrong with them , he said he was going to try to break his leg so he could come along ! ’ |
| 17 | He assumed that he could come and go as he wanted , without worrying over-much about their opinions or needs . |
| 18 | It would be convenient if he could come at once . |
| 19 | When did he ask you if he could come back ? ’ |
| 20 | When he phoned , asked if he could come and see me , he sounded edgy and shaken . |
| 21 | He was being told in no uncertain terms that he could come out of all this as the loving , caring father who would do anything to keep his daughter 's reputation ; who welcomed her choice of husband with open arms ; who would not bow down in the face of adversity , but would rise up and conquer it . |
| 22 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 23 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 24 | as though there had never been another world , and when a boy she knew , who lived in Doncaster , asked if he could come over and take her out , she refused him , although she liked him , because she knew that she could not bear to allow herself to emerge . |
| 25 | so it might be that he could come , erm , anyway I 'll give you a copy of that |
| 26 | He sought desperately for other examples , but the best he could come up with was , ‘ Things . ’ |
| 27 | Soon he could come to lead his disciples home to the Promised Land . |
| 28 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 29 | She did n't offer her own opinion , not because she thought Paul 's design was necessarily as bad as Stephen claimed , but because she had a hunch that , in time , he could come up with something really sensational instead of merely pedestrian . |
| 30 | After thirty years , he could come face to face with the soldier who had spared his life . |