Example sentences of "could do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we could get some discounts an' look at what we 're buyin' I fink we could do even better than we 're doin' now . |
| 2 | For his part , Bush said that the participation of the Soviet Union in the IMF and the World Bank on the basis of the special status granted to it at the G-7 meeting was " the most important thing that the Soviet Union could do right now " . |
| 3 | He discovered in the weeks and months that passed a real passion ; a task that was not only deeply therapeutic , but one that he also found he could do rather well . |
| 4 | Smiling at her brand-new husband she slid her hand into his , taking him somewhat by surprise although he responded instantly and correctly by giving her short , brown fingers a squeeze and then , realizing he could do rather better , raising them to his lips . |
| 5 | I think he 's got a good idea here but if he takes that slant to his story you could do rather well . |
| 6 | could do little : they had no fire-proof clothing . |
| 7 | The men applauded ; asked her to do it again ; there was nothing she could do wrong . |
| 8 | Even Bell could do no better . |
| 9 | This was another Quaker , John Fothergill ( 1712–1780 ) , who wrote to Linnaeus in 1774 : ‘ Our Collinson taught me to love flowers and who that shared his comradeship could do no other than cultivate plants ’ . |
| 10 | If you are elderly or widowed , organisations like Age Concern and CRUSE will actually help you with the practical details and , if not in either of these categories , you could do no better than go to your nearest Citizens ' Advice Bureau for some help . |
| 11 | Hedonists seeking the perfect golfing weekend could do no better than tackle these two majestic courses , using the Thorpeness Club Hotel as a base . |
| 12 | On a new ultra-smooth track , and in a race which began with a multi-car shunt at the start , he drove an absolutely perfect race , while Niki got himself held up in traffic by the inexperienced Mauro Baldi and could do no better than finish fourth . |
| 13 | In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one . |
| 14 | So he could do no worse than consider Tony Cottee , unwanted by Everton , Tranmere 's John Aldridge or Clive Allen of West Ham . |
| 15 | Left alone , often with children to support , former women compositors could do no better than ask for their old jobs back . |
| 16 | They talked a while longer but Doris Clay could do no better . |
| 17 | If he is interested in what is happening in the European Community , he could do no better than cast his eyes across to France where a socialist Government have just announced that country 's highest-ever unemployment level . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 19 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 20 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 21 | Brace yourself , Leith , she thought , but could do no other than admit , ‘ He — phoned from Italy . ’ |
| 22 | He looks tired — and worried — she thought , and , regardless of Naylor watching , she could do no other than go over to Travis and kiss his cheek . |
| 23 | And when Travis seemed absolutely stumped for words , she could do no other than fill what would have been an awkward silence with , ‘ I could probably make the lasagne go three ways if … ’ |
| 24 | All you could do deep down was to pray it would n't be you for the chop . |
| 25 | Where what you do is take something , that is capable of doing that , and you take something that 's capable of doing that , and you join them together , and between them you get so much more than they could do individually . |
| 26 | He had done so twice , and could do again . |
| 27 | And I could do plenty . ’ |
| 28 | The claim that individuals are the proper locus of explanation because they could do otherwise , and the claim that their actions are indeed important independent variables which make a substantial difference to the course of events are precisely the claims that must be argued for , rather than merely stated . |
| 29 | The School Board is writing to support this initiative , and it would be most helpful if you could do likewise . |
| 30 | Widcombe Manor , with all its crisp carving on pilasters , columns , quoins , swags and urns , is as fresh today as when it was built — perhaps by the Bath mason Thomas Greenaway as it is a fine display of all the decorative details he could do best . |