Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] he could " in BNC.

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1 The contractions returned , and my husband got out all the books on pregnancy he could find .
2 Under certain states of consciousness he could become aware of the subtler dimensions of the landscape and wrote :
3 Unless an appeal is lodged within 28 days of sentencing he could be free in a little over two years .
4 At the point of a successful match the worker is described in terms of the kinds of job he could do and the job is described in terms of the kind of worker needed to do it , Table 2.7 .
5 And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’
6 If he had written it in letters of fire he could n't have made it plainer .
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