Example sentences of "he could [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he could eat the pages . |
| 2 | Biff thought he could perceive the pattern well enough . |
| 3 | But if he survived the storm , there was a chance that he could reach the President ahead of Louis , men . |
| 4 | He was ridden down before he could reach the comparative safety of his parsonage at Yateley . |
| 5 | He was crowned European indoor champion in Genoa early in the year and went to Barcelona believing he could reach the 100 metres final and challenge for a medal . |
| 6 | It drove two of the witnesses to the door , one of them Bloxham , whose nausea overtook him before he could reach the corridor . |
| 7 | Before he could reach the hatch , there was a sharp crack and it slid slowly open . |
| 8 | If he stood on tiptoe , he could reach the shelf . |
| 9 | A top-level sprinter could not be a top-level javelin thrower and even less possible is it that he could reach the top in another sport as well . |
| 10 | Anyway , he knew Steve Hilaire , and he could reach the picture through him . |
| 11 | Long before he could goad the aircraft to anywhere near its optimum ceiling , Vologsky would be frozen , evacuated or crushed to death . |
| 12 | Perhaps he could obliterate the signature ? |
| 13 | He never mentioned Nordhausen or the involvement of the Russians , but knew that if he could commit the British Secret Service , it would keep the CIA off his back and give him the time he needed . |
| 14 | The man behind him , holding the Skorpion with practised casualness , not the careful tension of one unused to handguns ; balanced , relaxed , self-confident , knowing he could bring the machine-pistol to aim and fire in a fraction of a second . |
| 15 | ‘ But , unluckily , he could bring the power of Cumbria with him . |
| 16 | He thought that he could defined the , the simplest concepts to which Peano claimed to reduce arithmetical ideas , to classes and relations between classes , and even perhaps in terms of something still simpler , quite purely in logical conceptions like that of implication . |
| 17 | There is no way in which he could emphasise the veracity of his testimony except by literally asserting it . |
| 18 | He hesitated , trying to divine his father 's intent in asking it so that he could formulate the appropriate answer . |
| 19 | The first time she wore it , Nigel kept his coat on at a party so that he could hold the side out and cover the vision . |
| 20 | With Gomez watching , he bound Trent s wrists in front of him so that he could hold the coffee mug . |
| 21 | A SERBIAN warlord stormed out of the London peace conference on Yugoslavia yesterday — claiming he could wreck the vital talks . |
| 22 | Either he could wait until the pod splashed down at which point it would start to sink , and if the water was deep enough and he had difficulty in escaping from the safety envelope , or became entangled with the chute , he might drown before he was able to struggle to the surface — or else he could blow the hatch prior to landing , risking being either injured or knocked unconscious during an unprotected impact . |
| 23 | Dexter took the jacket to the window so that he could scrutinise the cuff by natural light . |
| 24 | He could organize the final output of everything that he had thought , right from the beginning through to end . |
| 25 | I seen a blind man once — he 'd got a stick so he could tap the pavement so he did n't fall down no holes . |
| 26 | Continued discussion with J 's teacher about how he could extend the work I would be doing with his pupil during week before my next visit . |
| 27 | He was also a member of the advisory committee on aliens in Britain , and did what he could to ease the lot of refugees who managed to escape Nazi tyranny . |
| 28 | ‘ He could mould the characters , ’ said Barry Took . |
| 29 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 30 | They stayed there for a quarter of an hour , the only movement being the driver slowly inching his little finger up so that he could lock the door . |