Example sentences of "he could put " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could put it on the wall here , explains Tony . |
| 2 | A large part of his pleasure derived from walking holidays , when he could put Oxford , college politics and the routines of work behind him . |
| 3 | During it all , Charles wondered how he could put his friend off such a highly improper plan as he had devised . |
| 4 | He could put green back on the trees , blue back into the sky , purple into the undergrowth . |
| 5 | Late in 1661 , a rumour had been spread about , by Bishop Morley , ‘ with all the odium he could put upon it ’ that Richard Baxter was already married . |
| 6 | Rosenburg , of course , knew of Modigliani 's work and perhaps Lipchitz felt he could put some work Modigliani 's way and at the same time acquire a beautiful painting that might appreciate . |
| 7 | He managed to communicate to a certain extent through gestures and facial expressions , and he could put together short sentences . |
| 8 | He landed eventually at Stabiae ( near the present Castellammare ) , where things were still fairly tolerable , and there he encountered a friend of his , one Pomponianus , who was making frantic preparations to escape , loading his possessions on to ships and fretting for a favourable wind so that he could put to sea . |
| 9 | ‘ I told him he knew where he could put it ! |
| 10 | But he was a man who needed to articulate his theories and here he could put them forward , embroider , reject , explore without the uncomfortable suspicion that his detective sergeant , deferentially listening , his face carefully expressionless , would be thinking , For God 's sake , what 's the old man dreaming up now ? |
| 11 | And he could put from him the treacherous suspicion that their first meeting had been contrived , part of a plan devised by her and Pascoe to exploit his influence with Hilary . |
| 12 | If the Conservatives continued in power , because her GP belongs to a fund-holding practice — a superb Tory system , he insisted — there would be no problem ; he could put her on the waiting list and do the operation next autumn . |
| 13 | He could put the past behind him ; whatever was to happen now would be by his own endeavour , his own will . |
| 14 | He could work out the house-style ; take legal responsibility for libel ; make sure nothing went in the paper which was against the editorial Charter when the Founders were not looking ; and he could put ‘ scoops ’ in the paper should the reporters come across some . |
| 15 | He used to sleep in the church during air raids so that he could put out the fire bombs . |
| 16 | That aversion to touch was coupled with the distance he could put between himself and others , the withdrawal . |
| 17 | Gould found that he could put those skills to work via the Labour Party — ‘ If the metal shop at school was hell on earth , distributing leaflets and canvassing was heaven , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Holding the bag open so he could put the goose in , Carrie said , ‘ Is he mad ? ’ |
| 19 | More than that , he wished he could put his finger on why he did n't . |
| 20 | Preston did n't see any he could put in either category , not at first . |
| 21 | And if he could put up with humourless Hugh for three weeks in the sun , the family , who could n't have many jokes to look forward to , would be glad of a running commentary on their holiday by the well-known author of ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 22 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 23 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 24 | Opposed , he could breathe fire ; contradicted or challenged , he could put up his fists and fight . |
| 25 | From Birkenhead to take these two three lots and he could put them in his but anyway , they were all gon na be done |
| 26 | But later — in the morning , when he could put up with the old boy 's fussing . |
| 27 | Just after teatime the owner came to the rails and called out to Maurice to send a dinghy so that he could put a party ashore . |
| 28 | Bunny was a young , gentle teacher though he could put his foot down when needed . |
| 29 | One of them , anyway , he could put to Lane . |
| 30 | X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out . |