Example sentences of "[Wh det] he could [verb] with [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karl Leyser has shown that this was a ‘ patrimonially ’ , not a ‘ bureaucratically ’ , governed society ; rule was by the personal presence of an itinerant ruler , the exercise of his patronage , the close bonds which he could establish with his followers , and the ceremonial projection of his sacrality . |
| 2 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 3 | He reminded himself of the details and exulted as he saw what he could do with it . |
| 4 | By six o'clock , when even the tail-enders of the department had gone , Leith had swung from wanting with everything she had to hang on to her job , to be furious enough with the man who was making her sweat it out to tell him exactly what he could do with it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If he did not feel so dreadful , Harry would tell the fellow just what he could do with his bedside wit . |
| 7 | If Wullie Robertson was not to her liking he would soon enough know what he could do with his bloody trumpet . |
| 8 | Fran swallowed hard , feeling the bitter taste of fear burning her throat as she stared into the man 's cold , flat eyes , wishing she could find her voice to tell him what he could do with his threats . |
| 9 | How could she permit another minute to pass without telling him , to his face , what he could do with his lies and insinuations ? |
| 10 | ‘ I … ’ she began , and was suddenly afraid that this new-discovered , not-to-be-relied-upon inner person might yet weaken last night 's resolution that , should he offer to sightsee with her today , she would tell him what he could do with his offer . |