Example sentences of "he could [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 15-year-old boy 's battle to force his mother to talk to him could end in stalemate due to the wording of the Children Act . |
| 2 | He could compensate for his low official pay by means of the strings he could pull in conjunction with the other few rich peasants in the commune . |
| 3 | He prided himself , with high justification , on being a great House of Commons man , but it was only from the Treasury bench that he could lead with ease and pleasure . |
| 4 | He could stay in Formula Ford for another year , or possibly move up to Vauxhall Lotus . |
| 5 | ‘ Thought he could walk on water , ’ McLeish said , in irritated memory . |
| 6 | When she did n't answer he sighed roughly , increasing his pace so that he could walk in front of her and force her to stop . |
| 7 | The German was dropped just before the end of the third lap and Andy was again in medal territory if he could hold against fatigue and the heat . |
| 8 | The man possessed power and pressures and Holly knew no stare he could offer in competition . |
| 9 | Most of all , she was the only person he knew to whom he could talk without embarrassment , and it was a help that cycling side by side he did n't have to look at her as he tried to explain . |
| 10 | He considered whom he knew in the Essex CID and whom he could tap for information . |
| 11 | I mean , I did n't think , Well , he could float in space , and it never occurred to me to ask where Sooty himself had come from , or the wand , but I was already heading towards not believing , I suppose . |
| 12 | The judge said there was only sentence he could pass for murder , Kelly would go prison for life . |
| 13 | He had devoted Sunday evening to making a plan of action and knew exactly what he and everyone else he could press into service was going to be doing this morning . |
| 14 | He had handled many issues with skill and public spirit and good feeling , but he had no publicly recognized parcel of achievement which he could open from time to time and contemplate with satisfaction . |
| 15 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 16 | I suspect that he used the offices of his religion as a reminder of fundamental decencies , an affirmation of identity , a brief breathing space when he could think without fear of interruption . |
| 17 | He could smell in imagination what Liz had never let him know in actuality — the smell of sour milk and dirty nappies , could picture the dreadful lack of peace and privacy . |
| 18 | In the security of the castle , run under the English training of Lady Macleod , and as long as he could potter from room to room , with the occasional short foray out beneath the weather , Johnson relaxed , and flexed his muscles for his hosts and the other guests who called to see him . |
| 19 | Brian felt that sleep need not have been too much of a problem : he could go to sleep , but the staff would not let him . |
| 20 | If he could confront physical danger and win he could go to bed feeling that he had achieved something with his day . |
| 21 | He could go from bed to window and table , to cupboard and door and fire and wash-handbasin , but only by certain routes . |
| 22 | She had planned to appeal to Emerson 's better nature , or , if this failed , to argue that he owed her whatever assistance he could give in return for his earlier deceit of her . |
| 23 | He could do without drink . |
| 24 | He had even suppressed , as he could do at will , the brightness of his amber eyes . |
| 25 | Norman Wisdom was snapped by up Rank after he had proved what he could do on TV , and the cosy cop series Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) was clearly a lineal descendant of Ealing 's The Blue Lamp . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh remembered that he had always drunk beer ; now he accepted whisky but said he could do with coffee first . |
| 27 | All he could do in advance was check that all was in order , give brief instructions and let them get on with it . |
| 28 | The tsar was wrong to think that he could rely on payment for the help he had given Austria in 1849 . |
| 29 | Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long . |
| 30 | He was sitting with Mick at the top of a hill and he was wishing with a deep desire that he could remain in time , this present time , forever . |