Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I heard how he lived hand to mouth in the Bronx , lobbying whom he could at the talking-shop . |
| 2 | Constanza saw it all too well : Anna above all needed a future and here it was , a son-in-law whom she could help to make his way in the world . |
| 3 | Then she turned to Xanthe whom she could avoid kissing , to keep her unbathed body away from the young girl 's groomed presence as far as she was able without coldness . |
| 4 | At least , he reflected , his men would be thankful for an enemy whom they could see , and who would n't disappear into thin air . |
| 5 | For example my dad 's brother Omega which you could n't find in Switzerland |
| 6 | Contrary to John Pain 's comment , I have always been a reasonable swimmer , and was convinced I would be able to reach the coast which I could see . |
| 7 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |
| 8 | Satan ran the sort of club which anyone could join . |
| 9 | When she woke she found her hand covered with blood which she could not wash off until she went to church to confess to the priest . |
| 10 | What persuaded him were two bits of Temple 's mind which he could not mistake . |
| 11 | We have formulated an ideal piece of research which we could never hope to carry out with our own ( almost certainly ) limited money , time and personnel . |
| 12 | The only prediction which it could be claimed has been validated is that the rate of profit would fall . |
| 13 | Your whole attention must be directed to balancing the need to produce the best result which you could personally produce , and the one which gives the subordinate a chance to learn through practical experience . |
| 14 | The second is that the pain or distress which we could probably relieve by crying , is so powerful , so overwhelming , that it becomes too deep for tears . |
| 15 | Certain value added tax cases would tend to indicate that the amount of benefit obtained by a taxpayer if the trustees allow him the use of a Ming Vase would equate to the sort of rent which they could have received if they had let the vase with appropriate adjustments being made for insurance , agreeing to house the vase , etc . |
| 16 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 17 | The model illustrated has the facility to take a heater and a separate thermostat if required , lights and a pump , with a spare terminal which you could use for a power filter . |
| 18 | He felt a vague disappointment which he could n't put into words . |
| 19 | Although tried as adults , the defendants were due to be sentenced as juveniles , which meant that the maximum prison term which they could receive was 10 years . |
| 20 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 21 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 22 | Any loss which he could reasonably have avoided will be deducted from his damages . |
| 23 | In his mind anyone who could have a bath without being told to needed treatment . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm tryin' to work out in my mind what we could do in this district if a general rebellion should break out . ’ |
| 25 | If I had written the script myself it could not have turned out better : two European titles and a British record . |
| 26 | I looked over towards the Pasanggrahan Hotel , and the balcony from which we had longingly watched so many prahus which we could not sail aboard . |
| 27 | Install a hard disk card — the advantage of this is the apparent ease of installation , also it is completely additional and leaves the two existing floppy drives , again the disadvantages are cost and potential damage which I could cause installing it . |
| 28 | In his book , Operational Review , Ken Impey , former head of internal audit at Reed International , sets out the typical broad headings under which an organisation could classify its different risks : ‘ disastrous ’ ( threatening damage which it could not expect to survive ) , ‘ seriously damaging ’ ( materially weakening it but from which it could expect to recover ) and ‘ unlikely to be material ’ . |
| 29 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 30 | We should have headed for the nearest faux French bistro , be we had not finished our ‘ 89 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon blanc which nobody could spoil , so we sat it out . |