Example sentences of "he could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joyce called together such members as he could gather of the National Socialist League and its intellectual offshoot the Carlyle Club . |
| 2 | Indeed in May nineteen ninety Mr gave up his appointment as a teacher in order that he could care for the plaintiff full time . |
| 3 | In particular the degree of negative control he could exert over the actions of the government , his ability to obstruct change , remained important until well after the end of this period . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | John wanted to be in bed so that the night would be over quickly and he could move off the next morning ; Mr Stephens had a neighbour who would lend them a handcart and John wanted to be able to push the furniture the eight miles uphill to Crossbridge , settle it , and return the handcart the same day . |
| 6 | Before he could move for the doors , they were flung open imperiously , revealing a wide-eyed , agonised Auguste outside . |
| 7 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 8 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 9 | He could hide behind the door and club them down one by one when they came in . |
| 10 | It was the only crumb of comfort he could salvage from the ordeal . |
| 11 | He angled his chair so that he could sit by the fire and watch her . |
| 12 | And then he looked around to find someone he could send to the omda . |
| 13 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 14 | Then there was the time Joe Hulme asked if he could stay for the weekend in his native Lancashire after an away match at Bolton . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Wow , ’ Wayne said , obviously wishing that he could stay in the front and eavesdrop . |
| 17 | He could walk with the help of a nurse , but very slowly and with great difficulty , as his balance was extremely poor . |
| 18 | He he could walk down the street without people looking and staring at him . |
| 19 | More precisely still , it was because he was not in the dark about God that he could walk in the dark about Isaac . |
| 20 | I know he could walk in the next lesson and things would be perfectly OK . |
| 21 | But this was almost certainly an ex post joke , unless it was the only explanation he could offer for the remarkably undistinguished collection of ministers who governed with him in 1923 , most of whom he had in any event inherited from Bonar Law . |
| 22 | Eventually reason prevailed , at least on the part of Prince , who requested of Jardine ‘ any information ’ he could offer for the preservation of Gould 's precious collection . |
| 23 | He could talk about the mouth of the river Rhone and about the influence of the Atlantic rivers on the tides of the ocean . |
| 24 | If the horse recovers well from his Longchamp experience he could head for the Japan Cup , for which he was entered yesterday . |
| 25 | Another sees Riesenhuber in charge of a new ministry of the environment , where he could head off the political challenge of the Green movement which enters the West German parliament for the first time after the election successes . |
| 26 | Drained by his ranting and lulled by the way he could float in the starsuit , just touching the padded interior , he drifted into and out of sleep like a man wandering through the rooms of an empty house . |
| 27 | He could choose between the civil law and the law of trusts , but there can be no doubt that the law of trusts was superior . |
| 28 | He could stand by the footplate of a steam locomotive knowing at once the names of driver and fireman who , for their part , knew that he had a very good idea of what each did and how he did it . |
| 29 | Robert Hardy says he re-arranged his schedule to make sure he could appear in the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 30 | He could tell by the tone of her voice that today she would be counting , and woe betide him if he failed to reach the kitchen before his allotted twenty seconds were used up . |