Example sentences of "he could afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Honecker evidently felt that things were going so well he could afford to relax and give his people what they wanted most : more freedom to travel to the West . |
| 2 | Working with an ensemble he had built in a hall whose construction he had supervised , he could afford to be as relaxed as he wished , and also as demanding . |
| 3 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 4 | Scouring a crumpled bank statement , he worked out how much he could afford and wrote out the cheque on his girlfriend 's back . |
| 5 | In any event he could afford to relax . |
| 6 | With a specialty like his , he could afford to wait until a really worthwhile chance came up . |
| 7 | Modi 's drink was wine , she said , absinthe when he could afford it ; and every night he would sit beside Nina at the Rotonde and draw while she watched him . |
| 8 | Known as ‘ le riche ’ , Frank Haviland was the envy of the artists of Montparnasse because of his comfortable life , the luxurious meals he ate , the smart clothes he wore , the paintings and Negro sculptures he could afford to buy . |
| 9 | Beatrice Hastings commented on it obliquely in her column and the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz , who used to invite Max Jacob and Modi to lunch when he could afford it , found himself warmly advised to embrace the faith . |
| 10 | He could afford nothing for tobacco : |
| 11 | ‘ Of course the world was affronted ’ , but , now again surrounded by ‘ devoted thought and care ’ , he could afford to ignore it . |
| 12 | He never expressed any special wish to own a Mercedes until he could afford one : then he had to have it , and it had to be bright red . |
| 13 | He carried on presenting dancers in an amateur capacity , but it was an activity that was taking up more time than he could afford . |
| 14 | ‘ He could afford to be . |
| 15 | My cousins had tried to persuade him to move to Nottingham where housing was much cheaper , but he liked London and stuck it out until he could afford to buy . |
| 16 | If they had any reservations about the amenities he was so tastelessly flaunting , it was only to ask themselves what his profit margin must be if he could afford this stuff . |
| 17 | As a Governor he was expected to be continually generous , and it seemed he was always having to spend more money than he could afford . |
| 18 | Sometimes an emigrant would advertise in the newspaper in Madeira for a suitable wife , marry her by proxy and pay for her passage out to join him when he could afford it . |
| 19 | On hearing this dramatic piece of news , Theo wrote at once , promising as much support as he could afford until Vincent was in a position to earn his own money . |
| 20 | In the light of his impending journey to Glasgow , he decided that he could afford to consult a doctor . |
| 21 | Be thankful … the truth … and the ring , which had cost more than he could afford ! |
| 22 | He tipped the doorman more than he could afford . |
| 23 | She knew that he had been doing without luncheon , and now he could afford some . |
| 24 | He went to her , and told her how much he loved her , and that she was not to heed him ; it was the headaches that made him distracted ; that day he had been almost blind ; Mr Lamprey had suggested spectacles , and perhaps now he could afford them . |
| 25 | In fact , he was able to take the morning coach to Holborn and walk the brief distance to Clerkenwell , but the fare troubled him and he did not know how long he could afford to pay it . |
| 26 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 27 | He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do . |
| 28 | This was n't a restaurant he could afford to eat in and he was enjoying himself . |
| 29 | With a reasonable lump sum behind him he could afford to throw in his job , sell the London flat and move to the country . |
| 30 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |