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Example sentences for "could collect"

  • General Johnston was so ordered, and was assigned to command of such fragments of troops as he could collect in the Carolinas.

  • With such troops as he could collect, Napoleon had hurried, in the summer of 1813, to the very furthest confines of Germany, and fought the great battles of Lutzen and Bautzen.

  • Marshal Wade was at Newcastle with such troops as he could collect, the Dutch were called upon to supply, in accordance with their treaty, 6000 men, and some regiments were recalled from Flanders.

  • We also got hold of a lantern and a quantity of candles, and we threw as many greatcoats and blankets into the boat as we could collect, for it was bitterly cold, and we had reason to dread its effects more than anything else.

  • He sent a messenger to say that he would instantly set out with all the men he could collect to their assistance, while he directed Lieutenant Taylor, who was with General Courtlandt, to join him.

  • Before I could collect myself to understand what this offer might mean, a dozen others were crowding around me with a number of similar proposals.

  • Yet Paillataru, who had removed from Mariguenu to the post of Quipeo, marched two days afterwards against Canete, which he proposed to besiege; but Gamboa advanced to meet him with all the troops he could collect, and gave him battle.

  • And the marquis, who had heard the news of the discomfiture of the Emperor Baldwin, raised the siege of Napoli, and went to Salonika with as many men as he could collect, and garrisoned it.

  • So Henry issued from Constantinople with as many men as he could collect, and marched to the city of Selyrnbria; and he encamped before the city for full eight days.

  • The Judges, talking one with another, thought they were lost while the Viceroy, with all the forces he could collect, would be carrying on the war with Gonzalo Pizarro.

  • In his letter Pizarro sent to ask him to come and join him with as many as he could collect, as the city of Cuzco had elected him as Procurator and Chief Justice to proceed to Lima and protest against the ordinances.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could assume; could bring; could command; could ever; could keep; could learn; could not have said; could not help saying; could observe; could offer; could only have been; could play; could read; could recover; could show; could sing; could spare; could swim; could tell; could think; could understand; could you; describe them; might possibly; see this; women would