Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing about him he could understand , nothing of which he could be sure . |
| 2 | Someone with whom he could be free . |
| 3 | He gave the impression that he was most disturbed about the occurrence and wanted someone with whom he could discuss it in safety . |
| 4 | Simon had been growing restless , but all of a sudden he spotted someone with whom he could discuss yesterday 's success . |
| 5 | His line of chat , and a bonhomie which could at times border on insensitivity , marked him out for her as a survivor ; someone with whom she could risk herself ; someone who could both carry and withstand her . |
| 6 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |
| 7 | For her part , she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand . |
| 8 | John — Augustus cast a sentimental eye on his retreat , convinced in his euphoria of pristine well-being that he had encountered one of nature 's radicals , someone to whom he could reveal his new true feelings . |
| 9 | Here was someone to whom I could confide . |
| 10 | There was nothing about him he could understand , nothing of which he could be sure . |
| 11 | But as for meeting somebody with whom you could be together , well , I would n't say no to that … |
| 12 | It seemed Noah wanted the magistrate to find nothing with which he could possibly take issue . |
| 13 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 14 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 15 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 16 | Looking back , I can not deny that the grant of the licence was something of which he could legitimately complain , but his capacity for complaints exceeded any normal human being 's by a very large measure . |
| 17 | Although Darwin had guessed that the Galapagos birds originated from there , because the Galapagos were so young , it was not something of which he could be certain . |
| 18 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 19 | Left with no one with whom he could discuss the farm-work and stock when the day 's toil was over , Jonadab became more and more morose , spending most evenings staring into the fire or wandering from building to building , checking his animals . |
| 20 | Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do . |
| 21 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 22 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 23 | Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride . |
| 24 | This early atmosphere was not one in which we could have survived . |
| 25 | The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . |
| 26 | She had a sick daughter , a fractious grandchild and a life which needed rethinking , one in which she could , perhaps , occasionally persuade Liza to come to Penzance with her for whatever meagre amusement the place might afford : a film or maybe a concert . |
| 27 | I did n't envy them their individual futures , which seemed dull or trivial to me , but I did envy the fact they had futures at all , whereas I had none , or , at least , not one to which I could look forward with any confidence . |
| 28 | Years later her increasing helplessness was causing unhappiness at home , yet there was still no one to whom she could turn : her parents had died ; her children had left her ; her sister was in Canada ; the family doctors and hospital doctors were uninterested ; and , apart from arranging adaptations to her house , social services were too overworked to be accessible . |
| 29 | A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time . |
| 30 | At this critical juncture in her life she felt that there was no-one in whom she could confide . |