Example sentences of "who could [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dwarves were well-versed in all magical matters — witness RUMPELSTILTSKIN , who could spin gold from straw , and King Albrich , who could restrain an angry giant with an enchanted coat-thread . |
| 2 | Of the 5,000 men that were surveyed in the course of the Kinsey research , no more than four ( 0.08 per cent of the survey ) were found who could reach ejaculation by fantasy alone , without the aid of manual or other stimulation . |
| 3 | Disraeli was later to talk of the Two Nations , the Rich and the Poor , who could exist side by side in the same country with no knowledge of each other 's way of life . |
| 4 | It is he who brings into this world all the powers to be used in it ; at the same time it is he who could become predator through sorcery of his own people ( see Overing 1985 ) . |
| 5 | With grants available to all who could gain entry to university or polytechnic , initial teaching training courses came to be filled , in part , with young people whose ‘ A ’ level grades were not high enough to gain entrance on conventional university course . |
| 6 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 7 | Stapleton , who is almost back to full fitness after a close-season knee operation , brought Pearson in because he wanted someone who could take charge in training — and have the respect of the players . |
| 8 | And your cousin was one of the first one of the few women I ever knew , who could take shorthand in Welsh . |