Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 2 | Try smaller local companies who might benefit from some publicity or for whom you could attract extra business or perhaps create an enduring and prestigious work of art . |
| 3 | When they went out to a restaurant together , he would always complain — very loudly so that the proprietor would know who he was and so there would be people around about whom he could fuss were pestering him for his autograph . |
| 4 | Between them they could think of no way to get the food Mrs MacDonagh had cooked that afternoon , and the plates she had left in the stove , from the kitchen to the table at dinner time without something getting cold . |
| 5 | It was marvellous when he rang , but since I ca n't have him ringing here again , I told him , in a moment of my feelings getting the better of me , that if he does have any message for me he could contact you , and you 'd pass it on . |
| 6 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 7 | He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost . |
| 8 | Instead , he told him he must live his life his own way , and advised John , when he spoke of having fallen in love with a ‘ straight ’ boy at school , to try to save his love for someone who could return it . |
| 9 | We were always looking for someone who could give us help . |
| 10 | I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub . |
| 11 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 12 | They know that it would be almost impossible for them , even though it would be for only a week , after which they could return to their comfortable lives . |
| 13 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 14 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 15 | We 're always looking out for somebody who could cause er problems in Wolverhampton and problems generally . |
| 16 | Take a walk around the streets one day and have a look at all the innocent objects lying about which you could use to defend yourself in a desperate situation . |
| 17 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 18 | There was silence during which they could hear singing coming from the street . |
| 19 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was a momentary silence during which she could imagine him rallying for another attack . |
| 22 | Nor did he raise one word about the history of his own great movement , about the fact that the working people of this country were urged to organise and to use their vote , through which they could change the policies under which they lived . |
| 23 | Within Christianity , people have sought out symbols through which they could formulate their faith , such as the doctrine of the trinity . |
| 24 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 25 | I began to see that mathematics might offer John and others the opportunities and challenges through which they could begin to succeed . |
| 26 | The four leaders , Clyde Wells of Newfoundland and Labrador , Donald Cameron of Nova Scotia , Joe Ghiz of Prince Edward Island and Frank McKenna of New Brunswick , also discussed methods through which they could co-ordinate economic and fiscal strategies in their forthcoming budgets . |
| 27 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 28 | There was frequently a hair-tidy of the same design on the dressing-table , a little dish with a lid , and a hole through which one could push the hair that came out on the comb . |
| 29 | At the end was an opening , now almost closed by the crowding trees and bushes , through which one could see the glimmer of the sea and the northernmost hill of the broch islet . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , ‘ sweat is of such a nature that it would not appear upon the skin unless pores existed through which it could pass from inside to the outside ’ . |