Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 2 | yeah , basically , I mean you could go to poly with what you could get , yeah |
| 3 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Smiths were prime movers in what you could call the depoliticization of personal life , after punk 's initial demystification . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |