Example sentences of "[vb past] what [pron] could " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The Air Step , which retails for £395.00 , demonstrated what it could do , when tested over eight weeks by a group of army recruits . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They ate what they could , left the rest , and went back to the room and the bed again . |
| 8 | We identified what we could cope with individually and collectively . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With this came what you could unfairly call the sting . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The swirling wind took away from us what we are best at — playing neat football — but we still showed what we could do . ’ |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I showed what I could do last year , given half a chance . |
| 14 | We retrieved the dented , cracked , chipped and broken and repaired what we could and used it ourselves . |
| 15 | The salvage men returned what they could , including the iron saucepan , but Willis 's painting materials were past repair . |
| 16 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 17 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 18 | Then she examined what she could of her singed hair , licked her cut lip better and tried to smooth her broken nails . |
| 19 | ‘ I brought what I could find of Rory 's stuff . ’ |
| 20 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
| 21 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 22 | She had an exact estimation of herself ; she knew what she could accomplish now , and was certain of what she would be capable later . |
| 23 | She knew what she could do to him , things she bet porcelain Xanthe would never know . |
| 24 | I , I says , I 'll let you know sometime today or tomorrow and er anyway , he was expecting me to say at least two or three or four weeks you know er because I 'd put the situation I had no tools , no nothing and erm I er had a look at it and I thought what I could do , and I says I can let you have them in a week . |
| 25 | Heritage 's depositors just took what they could of their own money and ran . |
| 26 | ‘ You took what you could get and now you 're moving on , is that it ? ’ he demanded , making no effort to lower his voice . |
| 27 | He reminded himself of the details and exulted as he saw what he could do with it . |
| 28 | A few would talk and from them he learned what he could of the north-west . |
| 29 | Rose , within her careful limits , gave what she could , including a lot of make-believe . |
| 30 | My parents ' solution was to take Ann into their bed , and Robert and I did what we could to look after them . |