Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 3 | Erm or I mean you know for advice about what they could do about D H S S. |
| 4 | With his vision of what they could achieve , he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip . |
| 5 | 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 . |