Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [Wh det] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondary to that , I anticipated what could possibly be done with such power . |
| 2 | As I became aware of this , I wondered what could be done to prevent barn owl numbers declining still further . |
| 3 | I kept hearing these small explosions and I wondered what could possibly be the cause . |
| 4 | At best , she had what could be described as deuterocanonical status ; she was unquestionably outside the usual canon of poets , but occasionally she was rediscovered and even admired . |
| 5 | He added what could , with a slight dose of exaggeration , serve as the epitaph of modern Cabinet government : ‘ All we can do is press every button we 've got . |
| 6 | It showed what could be achieved when the Treasury and the DHSS worked together . |
| 7 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |