Example sentences of "he could [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 2 | How he thought he could love Mama so much and dislike her friends and relations on the grounds that they were Italian , I do n't know . |
| 3 | He may have asked for Norman help against his enemies in 1009 , and a continental source records that he at some point appealed to the French monarch Robert the Pious for assistance , conceivably in the hope that he could exert pressure on the Normans . |
| 4 | He could move stuff faster than ice-cream in July . |
| 5 | When the Ashleys needed help with construction work he could borrow farm tractors for them . |
| 6 | Oag , formerly marketing director with a major computer industry concern in London , had grown tired of weekend commuting from Nairn , and began to look for a local company he could invest time and money in . |
| 7 | On May 4th , before a meeting of the Council of the Americas , he said that the only way he could build support for a system of open trade was to apply the laws that Congress had put in place , and to hold America 's partners to agreements they have made . |
| 8 | Each department of the shop , millinery , haberdashery , coats , children 's clothes , and so on , had its own assistant behind the counter , and above his head was the contraption consisting of springs and wires by means of which , by pulling down a handle , he could send money and the bill in a cylindrical metal container hurtling at speed towards the cashier . |
| 9 | He could offer mademoiselle a taste of Cointreau , Grand Marnier , Chartreuse , if she really had no berth . |
| 10 | IT was the idea that he could offer comfort to others in bereavement which inspired John Johnson , of Winchester Road , Four Marks , to have his collection of prose and poetry published . |
| 11 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 12 | In theory he supposed he could organize PANUP from anywhere in the UK , but he knew that it was irrevocably bound to Larksoken headland , to the caravan , to that concrete mass five miles to the north which had power , apparently , to dominate his will as it did his imagination . |
| 13 | Resentment was also fuelled by an incident in the eastern city of Santa Cruz in July , when a DEA agent shot and wounded a Bolivian in a bar , but then disappeared from the country before he could stand trial . |
| 14 | ‘ He could stand trial in Gibraltar but I would imagine the RUC would wish to interview him . ’ |
| 15 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 16 | He had thought , here was somebody senior he could pass responsibility to without having to do anything about it himself . |
| 17 | He made colleagues of similar rank jealous for the way he could generate publicity . |
| 18 | It is also the reason why he could lay claim to a rich blend of cultures , having an excellent grasp of the European legal system and Arabic poetry and customs . |
| 19 | Gedge conceded the point in a humorous letter to Dave Fielding , admitted that he could lay claim to a proportion of the royalties accrued by the song . |
| 20 | What was she , that he could lay claim to her like this ? |
| 21 | For a moment , he wished he could tell Elinor these things . |
| 22 | He could smell cooking . |
| 23 | He noticed that she was puffing along with a glass held before her in both hands — he could smell whisky . |
| 24 | He thought he could smell dope ; grass or resin fumes . |
| 25 | He could smell jasmine , garlic , turpentine , and , closing his eyes , he could cling to the illusion that nothing had changed . |
| 26 | He could smell copy . |
| 27 | He needed a bath and quickly , he imagined he could smell smoke and the sour stench of sweat from his skin . |
| 28 | It was in 1985 that he won this championship at Dornoch when nobody expected him to , but this time he could start favourite over what he calls ‘ my own private Shangri La ’ . |
| 29 | They returned in March 1962 ; he at last finished his essay on George Herbert but , before he could start work on a new play , he had to prepare for the press his early graduate thesis on the work of F. H. Bradley . |
| 30 | We understood his need to feel that he was special , that someone was looking after him , and wished he could draw strength from us , rather than locking himself in his fantasies . |