Example sentences of "and [verb] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move out into the country , go back to living in old rabbit-holes and eating whatever we can find . |
| 2 | The Editor was in a very reasonable mood and asked what I could suggest . |
| 3 | Of course , in these difficult circumstances you seek to keep order , but I ask you to reflect on one problem and to see what you can do about it . |
| 4 | In part , Southey 's changed manner reflected his desperate irritation with someone whose procrastinating habits had become unignorable in the cramped spaces of 25 College Street ( Coleridge admitted to Southey that ‘ you sate down and wrote — I used to saunter about and think what I should write ’ ) . |
| 5 | Slowly , life returned to something like normal in the Straits , and the bewildered survivors were able to bury their dead , and salvage what they could of homes in towns and villages that had been swept by tsunamis and showered with ash . |
| 6 | Groups of men had been working ceaselessly since the battle to tear them down and salvage what they could of their contents . |
| 7 | And for a loving mother the child would have Katelina , who would cherish him now , and make what she could of her marriage , for the sake of what she had found in Kalopetra . |
| 8 | Thinking these days includes other ways of ‘ treating ’ Cystitis — by prevention , which will involve you actively looking at your lifestyle and seeing what you can do to help yourself ( pages 12–13 ) . |
| 9 | really , beyond , like you say , telling Simon and seeing what he can do but |
| 10 | He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes . |
| 11 | You could type in all your accounting figures again , and recreate what you can of the customer histories from print outs in the filing cabinet . |
| 12 | It is important to understand how managers perceive their role in organisations and to know what they would class as good management practice to understand why they themselves do things . |
| 13 | The key ability is to know to address problems early and to know what you can reasonably expect the banks to do . |
| 14 | As a church do we put ourselves with Jesus on the side of people in need or do we allow ourselves to be paralysed by fear or the temptations of wealth and forget what we would rather not know ? |
| 15 | In brief , he has to step back two generations and undergo what one may call a painful cultural circumcision ( God 's Lively People , Fontana , 1971 ) . |
| 16 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 17 | When she came with the tray he would slip downstairs and steal what he could from the open shelves in the pantry . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh baby , you just go right ahead and grab what you can when you can . ’ |
| 19 | Sgt Steve Atkinson said thieves walk in through unlocked back doors and snatch whatever they can . |
| 20 | They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura . |
| 21 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 22 | we I try and cover what we can in the lessons Not so much what we can but what I think is the right amount for you . |
| 23 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It may be that work since the mid-seventies , valuable as much of it is , has in fact done no more than to clarify how much more we need to investigate and to highlight what we should always have known — that writing and the teaching of writing are immensely complex activities . |
| 28 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 29 | He prefers simply to place the issues before them , and allow them to make their own moral decisions and to choose what they might want to do . |
| 30 | But she was thinking more of Ianthe Broome and the man she and Penelope had seen that afternoon , and wondering what they would be like . |