Example sentences of "which [pron] could [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I nodded towards the bedchamber which I could glimpse through a half open door . |
| 2 | ‘ I had thought that the 1950s was a fairly stagnant , dull time which I could use as a sort of launch pad for the more interesting periods of post-Independence history . |
| 3 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 4 | all it was was a box really , a box which you could get off a , a , a machine and dump it on the ground , erm the idea came from , from er I think dustcarts really , where , where you could sort of tip them up and , and they 'd empty , and that , that was this early thought on it er |
| 5 | but in the twenties I was better at the pictures or somewhere like that , which you could get for a few pence , but you 're not walking about or doing tiring thing . |
| 6 | Four and a half yards , which you could tackle as a lad and then they er paid you for what you did . |
| 7 | The model illustrated has the facility to take a heater and a separate thermostat if required , lights and a pump , with a spare terminal which you could use for a power filter . |
| 8 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 9 | I think everyone felt it was stodgy ; it was not a dynamic springboard from which we could leap into a new era of effective education . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm after a Brian Clough-style dynasty , which we could use as a base on which to build everything else . ’ |
| 11 | Some will be more businesslike , some will be better equipped , some will be growing , others in decline — all these factors directly affect both the contribution which they could make to a partnership and the objective which they would expect to gain from it . |
| 12 | In her study of 61 white mothers conducted in London in 1983–4 , Wilson ( 1987 ) found that none relied upon their children 's grandparents to carry the main burden of child care while they themselves went out to work , but most regarded grandmothers as support which they could use on a more casual basis for babysitting , and as help in emergencies . |
| 13 | Everyone hoped to have at least four " ways out " , along which he could travel in a crisis . |
| 14 | Ever since 1947 some Gaullists had recognized that the General 's willingness to prolong his role beyond periods of acute crisis — the only periods in which he could function as a consensual leader — risked compromising his mystique . |
| 15 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 16 | He also arranged with the school resource centre for him to have access to the library area at certain periods , during which he could relax with a book or magazine . |