Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution . |
| 2 | To a hushed court Dr Howe described what he would do if the court granted the application . |
| 3 | So we used to go up there and get our .008″ banjo strings and put them on the top and it really transformed what you could do . ’ |
| 4 | People changed whatever they could and learned to cover their asses even more skilfully . |
| 5 | Who demonstrated what you might call a profound lack of interest . |
| 6 | The Air Step , which retails for £395.00 , demonstrated what it could do , when tested over eight weeks by a group of army recruits . |
| 7 | In 1895 , the Royal Free appointed an official ‘ almoner ’ to ensure that patients were genuinely poor and that they contributed what they could afford to their treatment . |
| 8 | Time spent puzzling how to avoid these problems is time wasted which you could use for looking around more . |
| 9 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 10 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 11 | The night came down over Bryn Glas , and the remnant of the Mortimer forces crept out of hiding , salvaged what they could , and made lamely for home with their wounds and their disgrace . |
| 12 | Cabezón wrote such versos or versillos and it has been suggested that he was stimulated by the example of Arnolt Schlick ( see p.184 ) who also composed what one might call suites of versets , notably those on ‘ Da pacem Domine ’ in the first part of his Tabulaturen ( 1512 ) , without the choral alternation . |
| 13 | So they drank it , and ate what they could of the unprepossessing fare , conscious of the hostile gaze of the stuffed fish in the corner . |
| 14 | They ate what they could , left the rest , and went back to the room and the bed again . |
| 15 | She practised what she 'd say to Sir Willie on the other dealers . |
| 16 | Oh , I built whole fantasies round you , I imagined what it would be like to have a child , to have had you as my son . |
| 17 | We identified what we could cope with individually and collectively . ’ |
| 18 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 19 | With this came what you could unfairly call the sting . |
| 20 | Then one year something happened which I can never forget . |
| 21 | He hated the car and he hated himself in it ; he hated what it could do to him and what it had done to him . |
| 22 | And they sat and they plotted what they should do next . |
| 23 | ‘ The swirling wind took away from us what we are best at — playing neat football — but we still showed what we could do . ’ |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I showed what I could do last year , given half a chance . |
| 25 | For a moment , he reminded Melissa of Lou in his haste to defend a loved one , but she had seen how his knuckles whitened on hearing the story and guessed what he must be thinking . |
| 26 | He sensed that his father had moved away and guessed what he must be doing : fortifying the boards with the heaviest things he could drag : the sack of provisions , the bench-boards , the high chair itself . |
| 27 | On a theory of understanding which linked what we can understand with what we could come to recognise as true , the distinction collapses and all the relevant sceptical arguments will be of the strongest type ; that is , will claim that we do not even understand the propositions we claim to know . |
| 28 | We retrieved the dented , cracked , chipped and broken and repaired what we could and used it ourselves . |
| 29 | Please find six copies of the new form enclosed which I would ask you to complete for all your current opportunities ( photocopy further copies if necessary ) . |
| 30 | It expressed what she would almost certainly feel in the morning . |