Example sentences of "he could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was ridden down before he could reach the comparative safety of his parsonage at Yateley . |
| 2 | He never mentioned Nordhausen or the involvement of the Russians , but knew that if he could commit the British Secret Service , it would keep the CIA off his back and give him the time he needed . |
| 3 | He hesitated , trying to divine his father 's intent in asking it so that he could formulate the appropriate answer . |
| 4 | A SERBIAN warlord stormed out of the London peace conference on Yugoslavia yesterday — claiming he could wreck the vital talks . |
| 5 | He could organize the final output of everything that he had thought , right from the beginning through to end . |
| 6 | Then he could confront the Prime Minister with the choice of still higher interest rates or a relaxation in her opposition to the pound 's joining the ERM . |
| 7 | He then made two transfer requests and Wilkinson seized the first opportunity he could to unload the controversial star . |
| 8 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 9 | Now he could smell the burnt-phosphorous of tracer in the air . |
| 10 | By this time he could smell the hydraulic fluid . |
| 11 | The brightness struck at his eyes , he half-closed them , he could smell the acrid scent of burning cooking oil . |
| 12 | ‘ — Maybe he could start the Royal Church of Scotland . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Now there is a possibility he could miss the entire season and I feel very sorry for him because he 's put in so much hard work . ’ |
| 14 | So intently did Nietzsche interpret Schopenhauer 's " personal " relevance at this time , that he could locate the vital centre of the philosopher 's system in its therapeutic power to help with the practical crises of living . |
| 15 | Peter , the most experienced ornithologist with the party , said he could detect the musky smell of storm petrel in the bothies . |
| 16 | From here he could observe the great world outside , before plunging back into it . |
| 17 | The observer , equipped with a cassette tape-recorder , earphone and coding sheets , stationed himself so that he could observe the mother-child interaction in either of the two adjoining rooms . |
| 18 | ‘ … directly reminiscent of the existence of the individual in infancy before he could talk readily , when everyone was bigger and stronger , when chairs and tables were mountainous and had sharp injurious edges , when he could flood the dark universe with light if someone lifted him to press the switch , but when usually his greatest efforts were ineffectual to change anything . |
| 19 | But he could give the new boy his debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , when United take on Benfica in a testimonial for Eusebio that also marks 25 years since United beat the Portuguese to win England 's first European Cup . |
| 20 | He could handle the fast rise now , although he 'd had some trouble along the way . |
| 21 | Irish challenger Brief Truce could also miss the race , though he proved he could handle the soft when chasing home All At Sea , who will love the ground , in the Prix du Moulin . |
| 22 | You see the thing is , I said , Gary said to me he said did you ask them about the over bed erm units and that and I said yeah , I said he wanted to , he , he said he could do the over bed unit for eighteen hundred plus the wardrobes for three eighty eight |
| 23 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 24 | Thwarted in his attempts to cause a shortage of coal in London by attacking Newcastle , as the Dutch had done in 1667 when they controlled the Thames estuary , Jones did what he could to disrupt the coastal trade . |
| 25 | Paul had been a real find so far , and she knew it would do his professional standing a lot of good if he could design the whole hotel complex . |
| 26 | Fortunately , however , they knew enough about Dawn 's condition to question the neurosurgeon closely when he described how Dawn would be fully conscious throughout the operation so that he could identify the damaged brain cells which were causing the spasticity , in order to destroy them . |
| 27 | As the pain became more intense there was less and less space for his mind to wander over things , undone things that suddenly took on ridiculous and unrealistic urgency , but his thoughts were still churning with his innards and he could not keep out stray fragments of enacted scenes any more than he could stop the brilliant black fish from swimming in the air past his eyes . |
| 28 | ‘ This one , ’ she ordered briefly and was off again before he could settle the awkward burden conveniently in his arms . |
| 29 | If Law had a political model , then it must have been Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a fellow Scot who had shown that an ordinary man could hold the highest office without discredit and that he could beat the clever and the politically sophisticated at their own game . |
| 30 | As the fight progressed , Ferguson sensed he could beat the overconfident Mercer and he did just that on points in New York on February 6 . |