Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] could [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 2 | I do not play golf , nor do I have any particular interest in the sport , so there was nothing I could teach Peter in the practical sense . |
| 3 | This contract was , perhaps , the only evidence from which I could deduce Helmut 's hurt . |
| 4 | Explanation : You should write down specifically the areas in which you could see improvements ( or deterioration ) . |
| 5 | If you succeed in finding another job , or already have one lined up at the time that you go , it may not be worth suing your employer because the losses for which you could claim reimbursement may be minimal . |
| 6 | William Hill make Richard Hannon 's ‘ pocket rocket ’ clear favourite for the Group Two event , in which she could face challenges from Wolfhound , Paris House and Zieten . |
| 7 | Premack 's plastic tokens which Sarah , his only real success , was required to arrange in series on the magnetised slate , were designed to discover the extent to which she could make judgements about the qualities of objects ; for example , ‘ the apple is red and round ’ . |
| 8 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 9 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 10 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |
| 11 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 12 | We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes . |
| 13 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |
| 14 | It seems ludicrous that Scottish Back-Benchers do not even have the facility of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs to which we could summon Ministers and ask them in detail about the problems that we face . |
| 15 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 16 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
| 17 | The only this group could admit were reforms that benefited its members : the sale of the common lands and the entailed estates of the Church , an operation that they could dominate and from which they could draw profit . |
| 18 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 19 | Predictably , they took the parts from which they could make money . |
| 20 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 21 | There is ample evidence that in the Victorian and Edwardian ages working-class women were knowledgeable about techniques by which they could control family size . |
| 22 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |
| 23 | So in the last half of February Fleischmann and Pons had a detector with which they could count neutrons . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 25 | He told himself he could take life easy : |
| 26 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 27 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 28 | Without this , one can not begin to grasp the size and complexity of Charles ' achievements — such as the uncanny speed with which he could move troops across great distances . |
| 29 | Even granting the absurdity of Hitler 's racialist theories , it would be possible to credit him with realistic goals ( to exploit a political scapegoat , to depopulate Eastern Europe for resettlement ) for which he could massacre Jews and Slavs in as full awareness as theirs when they flee or fight . |
| 30 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |