Example sentences of "who could [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 2 | The great boulevards led to him from all directions , bringing the homage of a loyal and overawed population — who could assemble in the oval-shaped square thoughtfully provided for a quarter of a million of them . |
| 3 | The Labour party fears that somewhere there might be a single person who is also a millionaire who could benefit from a single person 's discount , so it is absolutely against the proposal . |
| 4 | Alice 's Restaurant ( 1969 ) had an obvious appeal for those who could identify with a communal haven for hippies , and Little Big Man would continue to reveal his preoccupation with the outsider by seeing the Cheyenne as ‘ ethnic ’ hippies who contrasted favourably with white civilisation . |
| 5 | There is nothing wrong with being realistic and I suppose Scotland has about 20 or so players who could fit into the national side without weakening it , especially as we have recently lost a third of that national side . |
| 6 | Only people who could rely on an extended family network could hope to have the friends and connections necessary to protect themselves from the avarice of the sultan 's lesser officials . |
| 7 | Three and four decades ago , I was a star-struck cinema-goer who could think of no better way to pass a morning , afternoon or evening than by visiting the local flea-pit . |
| 8 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 9 | It was important to retain Lloyd George , not just as the man who had won the war but also as a man who could talk to the working class ; and if a revolutionary situation were to arise , then it would be far better if Unionists could call on Liberals to help resist it . |
| 10 | She who could kill with a single fingertip . |
| 11 | Behind that frank countenance of his lay a man who could fence with the best of them , she thought . |
| 12 | They crashed through their set as if they were in a competition to see who could get through the most songs in the shortest time , sounding like an unrehearsed version of the group Charlie and I had seen in the Nashville . |
| 13 | Nevertheless they still wanted a worker who could communicate with the young and relate to them . |
| 14 | Whilst some might quibble with the second part of that statement , who could argue with the first ? |
| 15 | True enough , Jaq had known the secret essence of the matter ever since his application to the Officio Assassinorum was fulfilled — his request for an Assassin with previous experience of a Genestealer-infested world , and one who could pose as a sophisticated mistress . |
| 16 | On the other hand the dominant firms , the ‘ Barons ’ , were also those with the most experienced and often the most accomplished advocates , who could call upon a specialised back-up staff of articled and managing clerks . |
| 17 | Who could ask for a better weapon than that ? |