Example sentences of "he could be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was to get the target hooked , and once he was hooked , he could be played along — very successfully and lucratively — for presents . |
| 2 | And to aid his cause Ferguson is close to boosting his already substantial cash kitty by £800,000 with the sale of Neil Webb back to Nottingham Forest poised He could be followed out of Old Trafford by other top internationals , because Ferguson is also ready to offer Wednesday players plus cash for 24-year-old Hirst . |
| 3 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 4 | His co-pilot radioed the command centre , requesting a fix in order to enable him to plot the best route back to Britain , or at least to the channel where he could be picked up by the coastguard or a spotter plane . |
| 5 | Gloucestershire may well have been influenced by this being Walsh 's benefit year , a traditionally powerful distraction , and by the fact that he could be thought out of touch , having missed last season due to the West Indies tour . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I thought , I 'm sure he could be started up . |
| 7 | He had already decided not to seduce Sally-Anne — that would be too dangerous — but to manoeuvre her and her father into a position where he could be bought off . |
| 8 | And whether he knew it or not , he could be marked down as one of Wainwright and Hayling 's ‘ Fragments ’ — a talented 1960s person who had now matured and wanted to bring his skills back into the mainstream . |
| 9 | The stoking , the music and the difficulty with which he could be knocked over , earned him something that even Mr Singer himself could n't buy — respect . |
| 10 | He could be knocked back on his heels , but never for long . |
| 11 | They should have penetrated his disguise and they should have alerted the Royal guards and the Fiana and every sorcerer in the Palace so that he could be driven out . |