Example sentences of "he could [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 2 | And then he looked around to find someone he could send to the omda . |
| 3 | He also showed his inexperience by asking Gerry Gomez , his captain , if he could be substituted so that he could go to the airport to meet his sister . |
| 4 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |
| 5 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 6 | He could go to the pictures on his own . |
| 7 | He had asked if he could go to the seminary school at once , but he had seemed relieved when Tom advised against it . |
| 8 | Mr Clerides , who beat incumbent George Vassiliou with a narrow majority of 1,998 votes in Sunday 's election , said that before he could go to the peace talks in New York he needed to consult with the Cypriot and Greek political leadership . |
| 9 | AN AZERI who hijacked a Russian plane so he could go to the United States to work was held on charges of air piracy by a Swedish court yesterday after giving himself up . |
| 10 | My old man occasionally joined us on a Saturday morning , but only to get some cash off Granpa so that he could go to the Black Bull and spend it all with his mate Bert Shorrocks . |
| 11 | It was not something that he could admit to the outside world , though . |
| 12 | He could smell jasmine , garlic , turpentine , and , closing his eyes , he could cling to the illusion that nothing had changed . |
| 13 | He was born deaf , dumb and blind and was also mentally-deficient , and died in 1902 before he could accede to the bewildering duties and titles that went with the Dukedom of Norfolk , Earl Marshal of England . |
| 14 | Athelstan could n't leave his parish and go into the city , but he wished he could speak to the coroner , apologise for leaving him so abruptly the night before last . |
| 15 | It was work towards which all Ramsey 's training and expectations led as the right contribution which he could make to the life of his Church and to that of Christendom . |
| 16 | She thought his resignation was ‘ inevitable ’ but believed he could return to the Government later . |
| 17 | When at last he could return to the plans he had left incomplete in 1102 , he seems to have recognized that he had attempted too much . |
| 18 | Before he could return to the Redoubt , he would have to earn an income deemed acceptable to the Lance master and his treasurer . |
| 19 | Bird notes , not songs , he could emulate to the life , and had I believe made use of this faculty in trapping birds . |
| 20 | He needed a trustworthy , dedicated , and professional assistant , who he could dispatch to the parts he would not have time to visit personally . |
| 21 | He waited ; patient , alert , ready to take the only way now that he could escape to the Forest of Dean . |
| 22 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 23 | Now he could see to the lane that led to the pavillon . |
| 24 | Whenever attempts were made to distinguish between means and ends , he could point to the crimes committed in the name of religion on the grounds that the end justified the means . |
| 25 | He cadged fivers off various old school friends and workmates to tide him over until he could get to the bank . |
| 26 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 27 | If Mr Rich found that way of recovering what he had lent Mr Dunn in good faith unpalatable , he could apply to the county court for an ‘ Attachment of Earnings Order ’ instructing Dunn 's employer to make weekly or monthly deductions from his earnings . |
| 28 | Kolchinsky leaped from his chair and grabbed Philpott before he could fall to the floor . |
| 29 | To increase the chances of success , Louis offered Henry two teams of mediators ; if he did not like the methods or conclusions of the first set , he could turn to the second . |
| 30 | These purposeful wanderings in nearby London commons were the nearest he could come to the idealized world he had found in The Amateur Poacher . |