Example sentences of "[Wh pn] could [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stand-in who could also pass for a horribly oppressed 25-shilling Victorian clerk was , of course , Mark Lennox-Boyd , son of the more famous Alan . |
| 2 | They were often used for one or another of the Sheikh families , or for some accident victim who could not get to a specialist hospital in any other way . |
| 3 | There was Pete in his class who really needed to shave twice a day , who had a deep voice and a very hairy chest , and he was a known bender ; and there was Stuart , who could n't look at a cloud or a diagram in TD lessons or even sometimes a house without seeing a version of the female anatomy , and lie was as smooth as a babe . |
| 4 | She was a big , bosomy woman who could n't work without a box of biscuits on the desk beside her , and Sarella could hear her now , crunching her way through them . |
| 5 | Mendip Express , who was winning his 37th race , started at slight odds against , thanks to strong local support for Burannpour , who could never get in a blow at the leader once Miss Dare decided to go . |
| 6 | You realize that there are probably only half a dozen big firms in this country who could actually laugh at a money panic now . |