Example sentences of "which [pers pn] could [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suggested that I write about poor women , and the only way in which I could honestly do that was to go and live among them , and I knew that you and Uncle Orrin would never agree to that . |
| 2 | You conduct it without the score in front of you , which I could n't do any more as I am far away from the work . |
| 3 | I was going to say , sub-contracting to us at , and I do n't know whether we 're all thinking the same way , at one stage sub-contracting very much meant , to me anyhow , that er , buying out work which you could n't do your , from your own resources . |
| 4 | She then sought a fair rent , which she could only do if she were a tenant , but Mr Street of course argued that she was only a licensee . |
| 5 | I think sometimes that we have a shade of the undergraduate in our government which we could well do without to strengthen and consolidate this nation . |
| 6 | Well all these people , we would always let them ha when we killed one we would share it out amongst the people who had given them , like er , I do n't say every time but occasionally we would do that and we 'd let them have a piece of pork you see , which we could legally do see . |
| 7 | Under pressure and under personal attack , the planners retreated into a legalistic interpretation of their role , making much of the requirements of various Acts of Parliament most notably The Sewerage ( Scotland ) Act of 1968 which , they argued , obliged them to service all new houses , something which they could only do by concentrating properties in particular places in order to reduce the cost of such an exercise . |
| 8 | Which he could n't do now for all the tea in China . |