Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis came to the faith by means of what one could loosely term Neo-Platonism . |
| 2 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 3 | ‘ And that from an Aussie ? ’ she was startled into answering , then went pink when he gave her a look of what she could only describe as approval . |
| 4 | Nothing , that is , of what he could definitely state . |
| 5 | Though she wanted to run , she forced herself to walk , with what she could only hope was regal grace , past Matthew and out of the confines of that cupboard . |
| 6 | But , he favoured her with what she could only perceive as a reassuring smile when , ‘ I 'm on my way to Mariánské Láznë myself , ’ he commented easily , ‘ so that 's one problem you can forget . ’ |
| 7 | He also got a copy of the underground railway map , and tried to trace that invisible geography over what he could actually see ; he would even try and trace the map of the flight paths of aeroplanes over the city , deciding which direction indicated which distant country . |
| 8 | A far narrower range of beliefs are attributable to the dog , specifically those that hark back to what we could immediately read off from similar behaviour in the case of a human being ; thus the dog believes his master is at the door but it would be a false move in the game also to ask if it believed that its master would be late the next day . |
| 9 | Would anybody like to hazard a guess as to what we could possibly mean as the difference between these two words ? |
| 10 | But what we have to bear in mind of course er the f financial propriety of this council would in a sense have been very easy over the years if the labour party previously had trimmed its budget according to what we could all afford . |
| 11 | The railway started to what I could only term , improve . |
| 12 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 13 | As her reports started to come together , our excitement grew about what we could now achieve for the children of Vietnam . |
| 14 | It was the Parish Council themselves who had to consider things very quickly and go for what they could best endeavour but you c er I ca n't see how that can be used to nullify the general view of the public of South Milford and the other parishes . |
| 15 | There she found herself ensconced in a huge grey suede and chrome armchair , clutching a hefty measure of Scotch , and staring blankly around at what she could only assume to be the ‘ minimalist ’ style of interior decoration . |
| 16 | She was shocked to the very roots of her being by what she could only think of as an outrage ; a violation of her person . |