Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I thought the only way I could control what I was doing was to decide on one specific charity — I chose Muscular Dystrophy — and work just with them , which is what I did . |
| 2 | Durance said : ‘ I believed that if I were there I could control what she told you . ’ |
| 3 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 4 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 5 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 6 | Sunday was my day : I could do what I liked with it . |
| 7 | Sal … do you think I could do what you are doing ? |
| 8 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 9 | George was my favourite character in the book as I could feel what he felt inside me . |
| 10 | I could examine what I wanted to examine , pick it up , smell it , read the books , flip over the cards , listen to gramophone records on a wind-up machine with a huge convolvulus-shaped horn . |
| 11 | I could tell what you were thinking . |
| 12 | I could tell what he was thinking from the way he questioned me . |
| 13 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 14 | I could sense what you felt inside . |
| 15 | I did n't even think I could explain what I was afraid of . |
| 16 | I wish I could guess what it was , thought Coffin . |
| 17 | They talked a lot to each other , and sometimes I could hear what they said , even when they were in another room . |
| 18 | She was unsteady on her feet , but I could imagine what she had been through . |
| 19 | Like — I know these girls who sleep with their boyfriends to get taken out , and I know that my body could be a kind of power as well , I could get what I want with it . |
| 20 | I wish with all my heart I could believe what you say . |
| 21 | It was at last year 's parade that Elham gave him the idea when she said : ‘ I wish I could enjoy what I am experiencing here , but back in my mind there are too many innocent children left with no hopes and no future . |
| 22 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 23 | ‘ We went to one beforehand just so I could see what it was like and what you did . |
| 24 | I could see what he meant : animals , with a life of their own that we ca n't understand , caught — imprisoned — like butterflies pinned on paper for us to say ‘ How beautiful ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I could see what he was thinking , so I started talking about love , how it means different things to different people , and that 's when he said it . ’ |
| 26 | But I could see what you were thinking . |
| 27 | I spent a good while asking for something written down so that I could see what I was and was n't supposed to do , but that was a forlorn hope . |
| 28 | I could see what she was doing , I wo n't be a minute , I think she knows what I go in for |
| 29 | We 'd then pull out a sandwich and a cake , put it on the tray : nobody could see what they were eating , and we 'd pocket the difference . |
| 30 | Hundreds more will follow , prompting Mr Hildesheimer to suggest that the best commemoration would be not to perform Mozart at all until next year , so that everyone could realise what they had been missing . |