Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [Wh det] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Wullie Robertson was not to her liking he would soon enough know what he could do with his bloody trumpet . |
| 2 | Bright enough to draw what he could from his NME days and survive outside , he 's carved a unique niche for himself . |
| 3 | He had come to his sister Elizabeth 's rescue in her time of trouble , contributing almost beyond the call of duty ; he had already done what he could to help his young nephew Robert — now what of Benjamin ? |
| 4 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 5 | Heritage 's depositors just took what they could of their own money and ran . |
| 6 | ‘ I have never sought an honour in my life — I just did what I could for my home village where I was born and raised . |
| 7 | ‘ I just did what I could around the place , milking the cows and making sure everything had enough to eat . |
| 8 | Just think what we could achieve with enough investment . |
| 9 | ‘ The swirling wind took away from us what we are best at — playing neat football — but we still showed what we could do . ’ |
| 10 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 11 | Besides , I did n't really know what he could afford . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | No , I 'm afraid I 've never really had what you could call a boyfriend , someone to come calling to take me out . |
| 14 | Those who claimed to have seen it were then asked what they could recall of its contents , and to what uses it had been put . |
| 15 | I ran upstairs to see what I could , and there he was , torch and all , running down the garden and then dodging his way up to the cliff path , and fast , as if he knew exactly where he was going . |
| 16 | Though that was easier said than done she would do her best , and try instead to enjoy what she could of the coming seven days , and treat each day as a holiday and as if she had n't a care in the world . |
| 17 | His pass at that grade would however show what he could do . |
| 18 | ‘ I had an uncle who was dying of emphysema , ’ said Betty , ‘ and he used to implore people not to make him laugh because it took his breath away , and I could never understand what he could find to amuse him . ’ |
| 19 | Easton 's section police tour the district in their vehicles awaiting such calls , although this meander does have another purpose in that ‘ You just never know what you could come across : maybe someone in a car that might containammunition , perhaps a stolen car , or perhaps your wife in a car with a best mate ’ ( FN 7/3/87 , p. 3 ) . |
| 20 | He 'd never known what it could be like before . |
| 21 | and , you know , once you start into , into that er scenario yo yo yo you , you , you ca n't very very little erm opportunity for anything because all you can do is , is to say what do we do now , never mind what we could , should or might have done then , what do we do now because the future is that way and the past is |