Example sentences of "[coord] what [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or what we could do , well , what I mean is , maybe would n't do any harm going down to the pub tonight to see if the others are there , only a quick drink mind , we ca n't be sure what they 're like yet — ’ |
| 2 | Or what we could do , if you say these this dose makes you a bit drowsy , we could give you the same stuff but in a lower dose . |
| 3 | ‘ We know what this means , or what it could mean . |
| 4 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 5 | The sources from which the children could find information enabling them to make fullest use of the church study were not confined to what they saw in the booklet nor what they could see and think out for themselves ; a number of people , both inside and outside the school , were enthusiastic and available for consultation . |
| 6 | We should have had our case prepared and presented to him , spelling out what we wanted and what we could not accept , before he took his decision . |
| 7 | Only the score and what we could work out on the piano and what we were able to hear in the opera-house from singers like Mayr . |
| 8 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 9 | Oh ah we used to get together and we used to discuss each other you know what we could take and what we could n't take . |
| 10 | As with most things in drama , there are many questions which slip between categories , but the attempt to define types of questions is useful if it helps us see more clearly what we are doing and what we could be doing . |
| 11 | And what we could do is keep him at Saint Christopher 's if we can afford to send him privately , keep him at Saint Christopher 's for a couple of years . |
| 12 | Not only should parents pay when and what they could , and so inhibit the assumption of paternal responsibility by the State . |
| 13 | Secondly , the discussion on why the schools were needed and what they could achieve reveals significant features of both the age and the class relationships . |
| 14 | Such mercenaries were specialist fighters , owing no firm allegiance , men who fought for pay and what they could get out of war . |
| 15 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 16 | Students should be encouraged to identify for themselves how this information would be used and what they could get out of it . |
| 17 | Young Whizzquid and his City friends can not be expected to toil on Aunt Agatha 's behalf for nothing , and the spread between offer prices and bid — between what she puts in and what she could take out five minutes later — is around 6% . |
| 18 | mm , did it , did it ask how much was stretching on her , what she can do and what she could n't do or |
| 19 | And what he could be certain of . |
| 20 | In this second case a person was less aware of the actual stimulus but quickly in tune with his own associations and what he could ‘ read between the lines ’ . |
| 21 | He was just as straight about what he did n't want , what he would n't do and what he could n't be bothered to do . |
| 22 | ‘ Never , ’ Harrison said , lying , for his whole purpose was to get back to his father 's farm to work out when he could return and what he could offer Mary . |
| 23 | Scales said , ‘ It looks bad for young Choak ; in his case there 's a double motive , the money which he stole and has to pay back and what he could reasonably have expected under his uncle 's will . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He stripped his chamber of everything , and what he could n't burn , he destroyed . ’ |
| 25 | Adam loved words , was fascinated by them , their meanings and what you could do with them , with anagrams and palindromes and rhetorical terms and etymology . |
| 26 | If you need an incentive to start giving up , think about the cost — and what you could use the additional money for ! |
| 27 | But er having done that erm you , you apacked his er , his objection very well and in fact you er y you got over that because you , you told him why er and what you could do and , and he , he agreed to er he was certainly a lot warmer then than he was initially . |
| 28 | I chopped up the chicken itself and I put it and what I could rescue of the rice and a bit more rice which was in the cupboard into a frying pan with a stock cube and some water and I sort of poached it all together . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It was what worked , what would suit and what I could afford . ’ |
| 30 | Changing from being employed to being self-employed , it 's , it 's a big change that is you and er , and er the union the union helped me and er told me what I could do and what I could n't do and all that sort of thing . |