Example sentences of "[prep] what he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to see that God was not a tyrant but a loving Father ; he began to see that the Christian life was not a series of impossible demands to satisfy the whims of an unreasonable employer ; he began to see that he was welcome because of who he was , and not on the basis of what he could achieve . |
| 2 | Though he got the lines , Michael Banks 's performance was very subdued , only a vestige of what he could achieve . |
| 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 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 5 | Beck added : ‘ It was a reminder of what he could do . |
| 6 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 7 | ‘ Yet you are the only man , ’ insisted the abbot mercilessly , but without pressing the suggestion to an accusation , ‘ who is known to have had reason to fear his coming here with what he could tell . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The Myrcans looked on with what he could have sworn was approval . |
| 10 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 11 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
| 12 | He himself had bitten his tongue from what he could feel in his mouth , probably loosened a couple of teeth and had a flesh wound over his eye . |
| 13 | From what he could see , it illuminated a pile of boxes . |
| 14 | But from what he could see , he was in a private room in some hospital , to judge from the clinically white decor and the chrome steel stand by the bedside , holding the I.V . |
| 15 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 16 | From what he could remember of Luke , the boy would have fitted well into the Waffen SS . |
| 17 | ‘ Not beyond what he could hold , ’ said the Archdeacon firmly , as though stamping on a particularly pernicious untruth . |
| 18 | It is true that much contemporary prose has a clarity and directness that was often lacking at the time when Huey wrote , while technical aids have developed beyond what he could have imagined . |
| 19 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 20 | He would have to think about what he could do to get to ride her . |
| 21 | and told him to go away with it and think about what he could do , and er mentioned money to him , and he liked the idea . |
| 22 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 23 | It became important that he should go on believing the lie , for what he could do if he discovered the truth of the situation did n't bear thinking about . |
| 24 | ‘ You could n't help liking him , but you always felt he was out for what he could get , ’ she said . |
| 25 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 26 | Tolby seemed to have buttered up all the Devenishes for what he could get : the father took him into the firm and launched him on his career ; Clare darned his socks and cooked him meals ; and Hubert — if Henry was right — had put some business his way . |
| 27 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |