Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] could [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote what became a celebrated memorandum to Cordell Hull , the secretary of state , in which he declared that he was " thrilled by the idea of using iran as an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy . |
| 2 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |
| 3 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 4 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 5 | ‘ How right I was , ’ she whispered , ‘ to be afraid of what you could do to me . ’ |
| 6 | And the Royal Welch did sing in the rehearsal , it was a record of course , and they sang of what you could see from the hills above Jerusalem , and it was in the minor key and sad as the devil or death , and the green light flickered , and Dylan , short , bandy , prime , obese , and famous among the bars , screamed as I have never heard , but sometimes imagined a scream , and we were all appalled , our pencils silent above the crossword puzzles , and invisible centuries-gone atavistic hair rose on our backs . |
| 7 | His back was already turned , so he did not see Hilary Frome 's gesture , expressive of what he could do with the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 8 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 9 | Sadly there was no mention of what it could do to a 13-year-old child . |
| 10 | And with it , the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade . |
| 11 | After checking this balancing they increased the current further to three times the starting value , and discovered an excess heat output of ten per cent over and above what they could account for going in . |
| 12 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 13 | " Why does n't your father tell him to go ? " asked Clara , for from what she could recollect of Mr Denham , she could not picture him suffering fools gladly . |
| 14 | She had fur-backed gloves and high brown-polished boots , not shoes but boots , and from what she could see of them they looked serviceable , as if they really were worn for walking . |
| 15 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |
| 16 | ‘ Er — you 've — hm — not told me any more lies , then ? ’ she strove desperately hard to get herself back together , although from what she could see of it Ven was n't objecting that his kisses had the power to scatter all sensible thought . |
| 17 | He himself had bitten his tongue from what he could feel in his mouth , probably loosened a couple of teeth and had a flesh wound over his eye . |
| 18 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 19 | From what he could remember of Luke , the boy would have fitted well into the Waffen SS . |
| 20 | From what I could see of it , the notebook seemed well designed . |
| 21 | From what I could see of him — mostly his spectacles and his left arm around the door jamb — he appeared to be wearing a red silk kimono . |
| 22 | From what I could see in the mirror he looked more interested in you than in the bureau . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 25 | In the 1990s the report of these professional organizations who constituted a separate industry , was based on what they could discover about the applicant 's known record to date as regards prompt and full payment , on the applicant 's own assertions and , controversially ( because of possible contravention of the Data Protection Act ) information volunteered upon questioning by third parties . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Joanne began to focus on what she could see as the positive aspects of the new approach , and while she did not specifically identify them as such , they were related to the process objectives within the scheme of work . |
| 28 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 29 | Erm or I mean you know for advice about what they could do about D H S S. |
| 30 | The tribe sang a song to thank the Great Spirits and everyone thought about what they could offer as a sacrifice . |