Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] could [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's his ten thousand investment income , well that 's fine , you know , no problem , and there is a marginal rate here which you could in fact reclaim a bit of tax on twenty percent . |
| 2 | credit card or trading check which can be used only in specific shops ) ; or it is unrestricted , where the borrower gets a loan of money which he could in practice use for whatever he wants ( even if he has in fact arranged to use it for some particular purpose ) . |
| 3 | In the year following that first visit , I read and devoured everything I could about Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 4 | As a child she had feverishly researched everything she could about Andalucía because he came from there , the most southerly region in Spain , the most fascinating and the biggest , the land of guitars and castanets , the land of the swirling dresses and sharply stamping feet of flamenco dancers . |
| 5 | It therefore did everything it could to shipwreck such a process . |
| 6 | As he held her she seemed to swell , as if another skin , another body , more calm and perfect than the one she had , grew out of her as token for that love of him which could in looks and words show itself so inadequately . |
| 7 | To-night he must make the shortest time of it he could to Strata Marcella , reassure himself that his father 's grave had not been desecrated , and warn the prior of Isambard 's malignant interest in it . |
| 8 | He ran to help and found that , instead of repairing it , men were thrusting what they could into carts , still under its netting . |
| 9 | Slowly , life returned to something like normal in the Straits , and the bewildered survivors were able to bury their dead , and salvage what they could of homes in towns and villages that had been swept by tsunamis and showered with ash . |
| 10 | If all of these subjects were studied at school in a ‘ generalist ’ manner , links being forged between one and another , then philosophy itself would greatly benefit , undergraduates at university would be the more ready to study it , and ultimately teachers at school would be better prepared to take what they could from philosophy , and apply it throughout the curriculum . |
| 11 | Lucas knew Lord Halifax from his university days and now wrote to tell him that Ramsey was the man whom the diocese wanted as its bishop , and hoped that Halifax would do what he could with Winston Churchill . |
| 12 | I did anything I could at home when the children were small to make a bit of money . ’ |