Example sentences of "he could [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because this is what he always felt after his father died — that if he could just speak to him now , he could really open his heart and say everything , without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords . |
| 2 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 3 | At least this time he could justifiably claim to be doing so in a higher cause than that of his own political survival . |
| 4 | He could barely relate to people . |
| 5 | Such blasphemers by the Mosaic law were to be stoned to death and for his part he could freely consent to it . |
| 6 | What really happened was that he had to climb a length of rope which had mattresses underneath it so that at the end of each take he could simply drop to the ground in safety . |
| 7 | He could eventually grow to five feet or more . |
| 8 | Comment was made this morning , er earlier on by Mr Timothy about the fact that the new settlement would be likely to generate a higher usage of transport than is the norm for Greater York , if I understood him correctly , erm , knowing the public transport system in Greater York , erm , I fail to see how he could possibly come to that conclusion , because bus services in the rural part of Greater York are very poor , clearly that 's partly because of the distribution of the rural population , and I fail to see that a settlement of the size being suggested would actually generate a level of usage of public transport any higher than that which ex already exists in the York in flat , and certainly no higher than exists within the exis existing urban area . |
| 9 | Vincent had not tumed up and he wondered what he could possibly say to him when — or if — he did . |
| 10 | He could always talk to them on their level without ever sounding patronising , as most adults tend to do . ’ |
| 11 | He knew he could always go to his mother for help , but pride stopped him . |
| 12 | Oddly , though he could never bear to be out of her sight and cried whenever she left him , as soon as his eldest sister , the faithful Cis , got him to her own home he ceased to cry . |
| 13 | He had cultivated Marcel Mauss , Durkheim 's nephew , so that he could personally convey to her the importance of understanding the springs of human action . |
| 14 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 15 | In a cloak and dagger operation , he got in touch and insisted he could only come to her shop when there would be no other customers around . |
| 16 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 17 | Moreover , once the King went to the States there was no way he could ever return to Iran except as a parcel from the CIA . |
| 18 | This is used because Saint Francis was supposed to be so gentle that he could actually speak to the birds . |
| 19 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |
| 20 | It seemed to Harry that there was nothing he could usefully say to this bewildering and terrifying man , and indeed that he was not required to speak . |
| 21 | In 1951 , he could still write to an author who wanted to publish some works in his collection : ‘ I have not given you my permission because I do not know what will be in the book you are writing . |
| 22 | If she did , he would know at once that there were certain ways in which he could still get to her . |
| 23 | If she ran away from Julius every time the conversation touched on the past or got in the least personal , then he was going to start to think he could still get to her . |
| 24 | It was empty , Jo was by this time awake ( having crept earlier to bed ) , but she did n't move for fear of her father 's anger interpreting his shouts of rage , she gathered that her mother was gone and realising what damage he could consequently do to her and her baby , she knew that she had to escape . |
| 25 | He could then say to the impostor : " Look here , it is useless to go on pretending . |
| 26 | It is true that even as he complained and tried to protect the British position , so he could sometimes admit to the desirability of American support . |
| 27 | That was something he could hardly mention to Lorton . |
| 28 | ‘ If the secret one was stolen , he could hardly go to the police . ’ |
| 29 | Oliver had his own ideas on this , which he could hardly put to Mrs Figgis-Hewett ; they involved her dramatic appearance before the dinner began when he had worked out she could have added something to Sir Thomas 's drink in the confusion . |