Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 2 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 3 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
| 4 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 5 | ‘ Not beyond what he could hold , ’ said the Archdeacon firmly , as though stamping on a particularly pernicious untruth . |
| 6 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 7 | The Myrcans looked on with what he could have sworn was approval . |
| 8 | We could n't do an awful lot because it was er er classed as a luxury business er and so we , we could n't get an awful lot of photographic paper or films or anything of that sort but we managed to keep the connections up with what we could get . |
| 9 | ‘ You could n't help liking him , but you always felt he was out for what he could get , ’ she said . |
| 10 | They were accordingly satisfied that the trial judge misdirected the jury when he stated that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what they could find proved that he himself did . |
| 11 | ‘ Yet you are the only man , ’ insisted the abbot mercilessly , but without pressing the suggestion to an accusation , ‘ who is known to have had reason to fear his coming here with what he could tell . |
| 12 | He scored in the shootout , and with the page three girl too from what I could make out . |