Example sentences of "could [verb] him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willsford , Riverside Boy and Richard Dunwoody 's expected mount Wo n't be Gone Long are others to look at but I feel that the class of Chatam could make him the bet of the race . |
| 2 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 3 | You could buy him the Crown of Command as one of his magic items , which at 50 points still makes him marginally cheaper than an Orc or Black Orc Warlord . |
| 4 | It explained his interest in Heather 's disappearance as well as his offer of money to Harry if he could give him a story . |
| 5 | I could give him a message . |
| 6 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 7 | MACAULEY Culkin 's Kevin may be a dab hand with a booby trap but when it comes down to straightforward , grimy-faced scallywaggery , there are a couple of Irish lads in Into The West who could give him a run for his money . |
| 8 | Gabriel knocked at the door and asked if they could give him a bed for the night and a bite to eat . |
| 9 | What other books might there be that could give him a bit of elementary information ? |
| 10 | " We could give him a pair of spectacles , " Eddie suggested . |
| 11 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 12 | You could give him a book token let him do his own . |
| 13 | The same mixture of steel and sparkle could give him a hat-trick over Jansher . |
| 14 | I wish I could give him a post , but I could not pass Lord Bute 's son with decency ’ . |
| 15 | She could give him a room with a bed , and her asking price for it was only a little above that of Mrs McIntosh , and much less than the inn . |
| 16 | It would be lovely he said if somebody could give him a ring . |
| 17 | Perhaps you could give him a round of applause . |
| 18 | No one could give him an age . |
| 19 | She could put him into the scale alongside Joseph and Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse whom she believed culpable of murder , or she could give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 20 | On Christmas morning , Murphy brought the carriage round to the front door long before Alexandra could send him a message to say she would drive herself to church . |
| 21 | She could send him a proof of the article on the Holocaust she had written for Fem Sap . |
| 22 | Once they had spent an enjoyable week in Bath and on another occasion he had suggested going to Cornwall so that she could show him the house where she was brought up . |
| 23 | ‘ But I could do him a bit of harm . |
| 24 | We could do him a deal could n't we with all , all Toshiba I 'd say how much Toshibas . |
| 25 | I could do him no good . |
| 26 | Before Rincewind could stop him the dragonrider had leapt from the creature 's back to land on the platform , where he stood grinning at the wizard 's discomfiture . |
| 27 | BERNIE Slaven 's outburst at being left out in the cold could cost him a place in the starting line-up as Middlesbrough take on Tranmere tonight . |
| 28 | I guess we could call him a sound entrepreneur . ’ |
| 29 | Well if he was sleeping you could leave him the car . |
| 30 | Perhaps Theo could tell him the difference between the two types of idleness , he asked slyly . |