Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular sums of hard currency were put at his disposal so that he or his aides could buy whatever the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii wished . |
| 2 | If there were only a few , each could know what the others were doing and all would be aware of being watched . |
| 3 | Elder assured Henry that , with Highland support , he could achieve what the Scots themselves wanted : freedom from France , the establishment of the Protestant faith , and union with England . |
| 4 | Could do what the . |
| 5 | House music was taking over the galaxy , and this was an indication that you could do whatever the hell you liked with the genre . |
| 6 | ‘ Craark ! ’ it said , and to Mildred 's delight , she found that she could understand what the creature meant . |
| 7 | What was more , I could understand what the men were saying ; although their accents were strange , their French was perfectly comprehensible . |
| 8 | When he played the film back at normal speed , which then makes the birds appear in slow motion , he could see what the birds were actually doing . |
| 9 | He could see what the police were trying to do . |
| 10 | Cardiff moved to join them … and at last he could see what the others were seeing . |
| 11 | Within a few seconds , her eyes had compensated , and she could see what the Doctor meant . |
| 12 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 13 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 14 | ‘ Meanwhile , ’ said Marshall , ‘ if you want a laugh you could read what the staff say they were wearing on Friday . |
| 15 | Er this er James can I ask you erm if we could establish what the stage er the next stage remain unspent probably er so that we the er paper indicates er er schedule of balance of a thousand pounds . |
| 16 | we put people off going , so I 'm not saying anything about it , not erm , I do n't , I mean , I do n't , I could say what the story of Major Barbara is , but then it 's not in any of the printed pamphlets for sighted people , therefore , should I , what should I do Cathy I do n't know |