Example sentences of "one could [verb] what [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Now , he came back to the theme with a script loosely based on Poe poem , The Raven , but the connection was so loose that no one could discover what it was .
2 One could not know what an experience was like without knowing whether it was pleasurable or not , but one could know what it was like without recognizing its value , even though this follows necessarily from its being like just what it was .
3 Not the happiest of phrases , she thought , though one could see what he meant .
4 ‘ I left because no one could take what he 's had to take ; surely he 'd have put a gun to his mouth by now ?
5 I was terrified when Herman , like someone in her books , turned to me and said : ‘ How delightful it would be if one could hear what she 's saying when she does this .
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