Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] at the " in BNC.
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1 | He could stay at the Palm Springs home of Walter Annenberg , newspaper publisher , millionaire , friend of the Shah 's friend Richard Nixon , former ambassador tot he court of St James , Sullivan was told to convey the invitation in the name of the president and to ask how many people would be travelling with the Shah . |
2 | Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level . |
3 | ‘ There was n't a thing he could do at the time , but he 's got his eye on them . ’ |
4 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |
5 | And when the platform emptied , he could see at the very end of it , a forlorn figure sitting all by herself . |
6 | In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy . |