Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was grateful for what she could get . |
| 2 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 3 | His back was already turned , so he did not see Hilary Frome 's gesture , expressive of what he could do with the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 4 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 5 | ‘ How right I was , ’ she whispered , ‘ to be afraid of what you could do to me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The problem with all these stars , ’ said Peter Fairley , ‘ was that the moment they started to know that we were interested in what they could do , and we started to investigate how they did things , it just went . |
| 7 | Nor is there any need to risk being challenged by alternative social visions , to attend to the views of ‘ every crackpot messiah round the world ’ , since ‘ it matters very little what strange thoughts occur to people in Albania or Burkina Faso , for we are interested in what one could in some sense call the common ideological heritage of mankind ’ . |
| 8 | They were welcome for what they could help China to achieve in practical terms , but their politics and social attitudes were reviled . |
| 9 | This was particularly important when few persons were able to read and had to depend on what they were told and above all on what they could see . |
| 10 | I mean you must still be half asleep in which it could be himself . |
| 11 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 12 | This approach does not place the emphasis upon the problems with which solicitors do deal , but upon those with which they could deal . |
| 13 | Mr Norris said he was happy with what he could see , describing the improvements to the station which handles 10 million passengers a year as ‘ excellent . ’ |
| 14 | The leaders of the non-Tory parties would have to discuss the principles on which they could agree and those on which they could not . |
| 15 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 16 | At the end , through an open doorway , she glimpsed a bedroom , richly hung in peach-toned fabrics , expanded by yet more mirrors in one of which she could see the reflection of a large oil painting . |
| 17 | Those who left service for marriage were as often as not entering an economically less secure situation : rarely one in which they could expect to be " kept " in comfort . |
| 18 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |
| 19 | ( No car of my own of which I could boast ) , |
| 20 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 21 | So you were n't aware of what he could n't do , so much as what he could do and did do , and how little of it you could understand . |
| 22 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 23 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 24 | You know I think that 's the one drawback of having a small workforce , the fact that if one sh picket did n't turn up , you know all of us on your th the force on the gate if you like was er a third of what it could 've been . |
| 25 | They brought presents of ham , nuts , cakes and bottles of wine for the journey , most of which we could n't possibly take with us as we had no room in our suitcases . |