Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] what [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The interior of the bus was lit only by a small torch made to look like an old lamp , the type you see in Westerns , and from what I could see I was glad there was no more light . |
3 | Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |
6 | ‘ They had a wonderful pioneering style and pride both in what they had achieved and in what they could teach you . |
7 | But from what he could see , he was in a private room in some hospital , to judge from the clinically white decor and the chrome steel stand by the bedside , holding the I.V . |
8 | And they are , they are interested in cyclists but from what I could make out reading this they 're not really going to help us a great deal . |
9 | Amitha : I was n't involved in setting up the Group , having then not accepted my lesbian identity , but from what I could see there was a lot of resentful and suspicious comparison between the BWG and the LGWG . |
10 | It was n't a slum terrace , as she had expected , but from what she could make out through the moonlight they were good working-class houses , each with its small rectangle of iron-railed garden in front . |