Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
| 2 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 3 | Lying about my family 's social status came easily enough , but there was nothing I could do about the more visible signs of poverty . |
| 4 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about the accident . |
| 5 | Years gone by in one town I you could tell from the drainage whether it was a colliery or a pottery . |
| 6 | Someone who could get at the soup , too . |
| 7 | And then he looked around to find someone he could send to the omda . |
| 8 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 9 | I had to see Helen , After all , she was just over that hill which I could see from the top windows of the Grand . |
| 10 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 11 | Just as we were supposed to accept their stories about how this was the only country in which you could ski in the mountains in the morning and swim in the Mediterranean in the afternoon . |
| 12 | Microsoft has worked tirelessly to implement user-friendly Windows applications which you could come under the banner of ‘ enabling technology ’ . |
| 13 | You had a lot of , a lot of qualifications which you could get in the army in those days that you did n't have when you were in civil life . |
| 14 | Alternatively , some bicycles have an odometer on them which you could use in the same way . |
| 15 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 16 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 17 | It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination . |
| 18 | Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do . |
| 19 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 20 | ‘ We discovered there were elms which we could use on the Floors Estate and so the Duke agreed to sell them to us . ’ |
| 21 | These early settlers used to heat their cabins in winter with coal which they could gather from the mountain-sides , and this natural resource also came to the notice of entrepreneurs . |
| 22 | This would allow them to ‘ demonstrate the high standards of training which they could achieve within the framework of their own individual organisations ’ . |
| 23 | Indeed , the way in which they could disappear beyond the ability of governments and even their owners to find them is eliciting a long , hard look at Europe 's toxic waste rules . |
| 24 | Floy had been surreptitiously trying to gather up stones which they could arrange at the roadside , perhaps in the form of an arrow for Fenella and Caspar . |
| 25 | Before the announcement , Baker had an unprecedented meeting on Feb. 14 , at a previously closed nuclear weapons development laboratory , Chelyabinsk-70 , with scientists there , who outlined suggestions for civilian work which they could do for the West . |
| 26 | Be that as it may , the real question at issue is whether the provision was intended simply to provide a remedy in respect of proprietary rights that either entitled the proprietor to have some entry made on the register or entitled the proprietor to have some entry removed from the register or whether the provision should be construed as creating a new cause of action entitling the court to make rectification orders as it might in its discretion think fit in favour of persons who would not under substantive law , apart from paragraph ( b ) , have any proprietary rights which they could assert against the registered proprietor or chargee . |
| 27 | I could see Bonefish and his sons working the lateen-sail of their skiff way beyond the reef , perhaps looking for turtles which they could sell to the men who exported the rich flesh to the Japanese . |
| 28 | They had already suspected what the problems were , and Liz and her parents soon started to discuss ways in which they could deal with the backlog of paperwork . |
| 29 | It was work towards which all Ramsey 's training and expectations led as the right contribution which he could make to the life of his Church and to that of Christendom . |
| 30 | The reasonableness of such clauses depends mainly upon the questions raised by s 11(4) of the UCTA " is the amount a reasonable one having regard to the financial resources of the party seeking its protection , and the extent to which he could insure against the relevant liabilities ? |