Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution . |
| 2 | As an anxious new father , Belinda 's partner , Jem , read everything he could find about Down 's syndrome because he wanted to know what he could expect from the future . |
| 3 | So we used to go up there and get our .008″ banjo strings and put them on the top and it really transformed what you could do . ’ |
| 4 | People changed whatever they could and learned to cover their asses even more skilfully . |
| 5 | I did not know what it could be , but I tried to reassure her and went up the road to where the policeman lived . |
| 6 | He 'll know what it could be . ’ |
| 7 | Anybody working with chemicals should know , they are very silly to work with a chemical that they do n't know what it could do , the first aid treatment , in fact , erm , anybody here work with chemicals ? |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't know what it could be doing to us . |
| 9 | As a photographic subject , but yeah , I , it 's simple and it 's , it 's a bit sort of small , the actual , I do n't know how you could make it any bigger but I do do n't know what you could do . |
| 10 | I 'd know what I could buy , how long it would take me to save for something … a new dress or whatever . ’ |
| 11 | He did not know what he could do . |
| 12 | Besides , I did n't really know what he could afford . |
| 13 | If Wullie Robertson was not to her liking he would soon enough know what he could do with his bloody trumpet . |
| 14 | The Sheikha would know what she could spend on gifts for her prospective daughter-in-law ; the son would be given a budget for his bride house . |
| 15 | The Air Step , which retails for £395.00 , demonstrated what it could do , when tested over eight weeks by a group of army recruits . |
| 16 | A fortnight ago , she had been too taken aback by the idea to absorb what it could imply , but before anything was fixed there were matters which she and Vitor must discuss , parameters to be defined , agreements which needed to be cut and dried . |
| 17 | When she came with the tray he would slip downstairs and steal what he could from the open shelves in the pantry . |
| 18 | In 1895 , the Royal Free appointed an official ‘ almoner ’ to ensure that patients were genuinely poor and that they contributed what they could afford to their treatment . |
| 19 | One wonders what they could do with five loaves and two fishes … |
| 20 | Time spent puzzling how to avoid these problems is time wasted which you could use for looking around more . |
| 21 | He looked round for a stick or prop which he could use to dislodge Yussuf . |
| 22 | ‘ As you read the story you found yourself punching up shots in your mind , and you got a strong set of pictures forming which you could then draw down . |
| 23 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 24 | Wanting what you could n't have was a waste of time . |
| 25 | The scene of crime team had done what they could , which was n't much . |
| 26 | Well we only had Epping hospital dear , that 's all we had , there was only Epping and er they were er you know done what they could very good and we had a dentist , oh dentist you had to go er , oh right to Old Harlow , up er |
| 27 | The embalmers had done what they could but , even as they walked up the nave , both Cranston and Athelstan caught the whiff of putrefaction . |
| 28 | She had done what she could . |
| 29 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 30 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |