Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laker was a highly charismatic individual ; a self-made man who had built his airplane business on a visionary self-determination and zeal , a refusal to take no for an answer — all qualities which Branson fancied he could sympathise with . |
| 2 | He stood , in Tolkien 's view , for all that was good in the Dark Ages — for the heroic awareness of heroic fallibility which Tolkien thought he could detect in Beowulf and in Maldon , for the spark of virtue which had made Anglo-Saxon England ripe for conversion ( a process carried out without a single martyrdom ) . |
| 3 | which Don said we could do |
| 4 | Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure . |
| 5 | French was what Léonie forgot she could speak . |
| 6 | Alan Dysart was the model for what Harry imagined he could have been , given the advantages bestowed by an Oxford career . |