Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 32 | Network SouthEast has improved its performance beyond what anyone could have dreamed might be possible . |
| 33 | This figure does not , of course , take account of what you could earn on or do with your money if it was available to you . |
| 34 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 35 | The Smiths were prime movers in what you could call the depoliticization of personal life , after punk 's initial demystification . |
| 36 | A woman would be quite prepared to accept a wage lower than a male compositor 's , since it would probably still be a great improvement on what she could earn elsewhere . |
| 37 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 38 | A special spinners ' mat was laid down at pre-tour net sessions at Lilleshall in an effort to prepare England 's batsmen for what they could expect to face on dusty Indian pitches . |
| 39 | Yet women , of my generation were the first to have the chance to refuse burdens that just could n't be borne , to understand that it was possible to refuse them without censure , to realise that if you still could n't have everything , you could at least make some choices about what you could have . |
| 40 | On the opposite page we 've put together three outfits from the Freemans catalogue spring/summer collection — just to give you an idea of what you could win . |
| 41 | I checked the map against what I could see . |
| 42 | I know you and the value of what we could have shared . |