Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outset Helen Martini said the prospects of what they had taken on were daunting , but she had no doubts about what they could accomplish . |
| 2 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 3 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 4 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 5 | Erm or I mean you know for advice about what they could do about D H S S. |
| 6 | With his vision of what they could achieve , he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip . |
| 7 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |