Example sentences of "what [pers pn] could [vb infin] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I could do with a nice pint of porter ! ’ |
| 2 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 3 | Mark discharged himself , came on to the film set and proceeded to tell me what I could do with the part , the film and the clinic . ’ |
| 4 | Eleven o'clock , there were n't restrictions then on , they could keep open as long as they liked , no restrictions on , on time , and er as I say their own place you know it really it was picturesque , I thought in since erm I contacted you I 've been thinking how , what I could help with and er what I could still think about , and er it was really a sight because to walk and it always used to be crowded , well it was one of the best markets round here and er people used to go off and from Bloxwich and er although there 's a good market at Walsall there was n't a Bloxwich market then sadly for years and years , but erm and then if you went to Wolverhampton you got to walk through Windsfield you got to er walk everywhere you went then and except on a Saturday night when the wagonettes used to run on a Saturday but it was amazing to see the girl behind the range now controlling |
| 5 | A mind like hers had never been trained to encompass a vast concept or to accommodate any larger vision than what she could see with half-closed eyes . |
| 6 | There comes a moment when you know you have done what you could do with something and everything else would be fiddling . |
| 7 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 8 | You know what you could do with ? |
| 9 | Adam loved words , was fascinated by them , their meanings and what you could do with them , with anagrams and palindromes and rhetorical terms and etymology . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | But think what you could do with an imminent ! |
| 12 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 13 | So what you could do with it . |
| 14 | What you could do with is labelling these so that , which one of them is the first question , sort of pie chart A if you like then pie chart , pie chart A and again if you 've got the total on , on your pie chart then you , you wo n't get confused will you ? |
| 15 | We identified what we could cope with individually and collectively . ’ |
| 16 | Just think what we could achieve with enough investment . |
| 17 | " What we could do with is a bit of success , " said a member of the tenants ' association on a big Coventry estate . |
| 18 | Let us think what we could do with that £2.5 billion in the health or education services . |
| 19 | I think probably , what we could do with is a some criteria as to what what complaints are going to go to the complaint examiner if we 've only got one of them . |
| 20 | I thought , oh if we could hold of some of them what we could do with them . |
| 21 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |
| 22 | Angry Doug blew his top , then told Restormel Borough Council in Cornwall what they could do with the factory plan . |
| 23 | WHAT THEY COULD DO WITH ONE BILLION POUNDS |
| 24 | One wonders what they could do with five loaves and two fishes … |
| 25 | He reminded himself of the details and exulted as he saw what he could do with it . |
| 26 | Ask Tony Pickard what he could do with an additional £250,000 for the development and training of the Davis Cup squad . |
| 27 | I was going to tell him what he could do with his job but I thought better of it an' I took my cards all polite like . |
| 28 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 29 | If he did not feel so dreadful , Harry would tell the fellow just what he could do with his bedside wit . |
| 30 | His back was already turned , so he did not see Hilary Frome 's gesture , expressive of what he could do with the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |