Example sentences of "he could [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riven realised with no surprise that he could love this world and its people , despite the heartbreak it had wrought on him . |
| 2 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 3 | His chair was pulled close to the stove so that he could prop one elbow against the chimney as he studied the pages of his newspaper . |
| 4 | He could borrow other verses in return . |
| 5 | Even though Hagans had already admitted more than thirty offences of indecency , and was facing a charge of raping another woman , Cheltenham magistrates were not convinced by police fears that he could commit further offences . |
| 6 | He never committed an army to the field without being sure that he could bring overwhelming force to bear and never fought a battle without being sure he could win it . |
| 7 | Mr Christie , a Bairns supporter , who lives in Falkirk , was approached in the hope that he could bring some stability to the Premier Division side 's warring board . |
| 8 | Let us look at a holy man in action , and the means by which he could exercise local power in a society where constitutionalism by no means ruled . |
| 9 | The right of subscribers to recommend patients was determined strictly in accordance with the amount of their subscriptions ; for example , no subscriber of less than 2 guineas annually could recommend an in-patient , but he could send one out-patient within the year . |
| 10 | Michael Holly had been a prisoner of the camp for less than one month , and already he believed that he could walk this path with his eyes closed . |
| 11 | At Friday 's meeting , Mr Stewart told the union representatives and the Labour MPs Donald Dewar and George Galloway that while he would be working strenuously to help ease the plight of the Albion workers , he could offer little hope of any Government money to support the stricken plant . |
| 12 | At Friday 's meeting , Mr Stewart told the union representatives and the Labour MPs , Donald Dewar and George Galloway , that while he would be working strenuously to help ease the plight of the Albion workers , he could offer little hope of any Government money to support the stricken plant . |
| 13 | However , while Mr Stewart said he would be working strenuously to help ease the plight of the Albion workers , he could offer little hope of any Government money to support the stricken plant . |
| 14 | Harry stayed with her until her eyes closed and then went to see if there was any way he could offer some comfort to the grief-stricken man downstairs . |
| 15 | ‘ He could earn another £400-a-time from TV shows like Top Of The Pops . |
| 16 | If he could earn some money for a railway ticket he would go straight off to Amsterdam and ‘ fathom ’ the deafening silence which was tormenting him . |
| 17 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
| 18 | Before I left , I expressed the hope that he could pay another visit to Oxford , though this time a purely private one , and I see that I wrote to him repeating this towards the end of term — the final term — because on 17 June he replied to my home address : |
| 19 | And given that it was Godolphin himself who supplied these items — most were simply terrestrial trivia , revered in the Dominions because of their place of origin — and given that he would not cease to do so as long as the fever of collection was upon him and he could exchange such items for artifacts from the Imajica , Peccable 's business would flourish . |
| 20 | And he could break that record when he makes his 500th appearance for the Anfield giants against Chesterfield in the Coca-Cola League Cup this week . |
| 21 | Another witness has claimed that Macari once told him he could break any rule that he wanted . |
| 22 | If by submitting to the one guilt he could evade all suspicion upon the worse count … he is quite shrewd enough , I fancy , to make the choice and quite durable enough to abide it . |
| 23 | However , in Lee v. Butler he was a ‘ buyer ’ in possession of the goods and thus , although he was not the owner , he could pass good title to an innocent purchaser ( Factors Act , section 9 , see Chapter 5 above ) . |
| 24 | If he could fix that sight , or even begin to do so , he might yet find a way of controlling the thing that had come to haunt him . |
| 25 | Ron asked for secrecy so that he could sign another driver without its being known that he was truly needy . |
| 26 | Rubbing out Kylie meant , of course , that he could escort other women , without being accused of being unfaithful . |
| 27 | In this way he could form three detachments , controlled through a slightly expanded headquarters staff . |
| 28 | If he could confront physical danger and win he could go to bed feeling that he had achieved something with his day . |
| 29 | ‘ I bet my friend , who commands the 4th Battalion of the Presidential Guard , that he could deploy 50 men and that none of them would lay hands on you . |
| 30 | When his reorganization plan was completed then he could anticipate greater delegation , but not yet , not while he was imposing his will on the Service . |