Example sentences of "he could [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only he could inherit a few more of the great Australian chaser 's foibles , this afternoon 's first prize would be in the bag . |
| 2 | Occasionally , especially in the evenings , Creggan would see him stop and roar until he could roar no more ; and then he would continue pacing , on and on . |
| 3 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 4 | However , he could achieve the same result by giving less attention to each patient . |
| 5 | He planned to pursue integrative schemes as a private citizen and it was thought doubtful whether he could achieve the same effect in that capacity . |
| 6 | He could strum a few chords , but the acoustic guitar on the records , is that him or is it you ? |
| 7 | Blake was back in Moscow where he could do no more harm . |
| 8 | The doctor , a man named Champney , realised he could do no more for her but , on hearing of the stranger ( Mary Ashley did not know Tawell , but described him as a Quaker ) , he set out to trace him . |
| 9 | Mind you , it would be more comforting if he could do the same with those who are a dozen years younger than he is . |
| 10 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 11 | Challenged to explain how he could mean the same , since he could n't conceivably experience the Sun in the sky on the Sun , he might , but very implausibly , produce the following justification for the generalisation of time-of-day language to the Sun . |
| 12 | I said that challenged to explain how he could mean the same , since he could n't conceivably experience the Sun in the sky on the Sun , he might produce an argument from analogy to justify the generalisation of time-of-day language to the Sun . |
| 13 | Similarly , challenged to explain how he could mean the same by ‘ pain' in ‘ Someone else is in pain' as in ‘ I 'm in pain' , since he could n't conceivably experience someone else 's pain , he might produce an argument from analogy to justify the generalisation of pain-language to others . |
| 14 | But Creggan could not escape , for he remembered Minch 's command to try ant help her , and anyway he could feel the same longings she felt . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're mine ! ’ he said thickly , and she held his gaze in a moment of wild hope that he could feel the same , then remembered the fight he had had to get her , and the prizes he was now about to collect . |
| 16 | Clearly , he could make no more of the situation than Hazel . |
| 17 | It was simply so he could say a few nice words about the latest wonder shoe to roll off the Japanese production line . |
| 18 | The originator of the tapes has clearly decided to make his tape deck pay for itself ( although I think he could take a few hints on how to eliminate unwanted hum and noise ) and the result can only be described as a rip off . |
| 19 | Then , towards dawn , he could take no more and messed the bed . |
| 20 | Patsy went , using his work for the insurance company as a pretext , for in truth he could take no more of the hypocrisy . |
| 21 | He could surprise a few better-fancied candidates in Newmarket 's Somerville Tattersall Stakes with ABS ( nap 3.10 ) , who was an impressive winner at Leicester . |
| 22 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 23 | ‘ Show me , ’ whispered Wynne-Jones , but when he looked through the mask he could see no more than the darkness . |
| 24 | He could see a few of the other scullions nearby . |
| 25 | When he could hear no more sounds from his Mum 's and Dad 's room , he opened his door . |