Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were . |
2 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
3 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
4 | Only a woman can understand what 's wrong , and there 's nothing any of you could do . |
5 | And the god , speaking in his high falsetto voice through the medium of the dhāmi , said without a moment 's hesitation that Kalchu 's bull 's time had come , and there was nothing any of us could do to save it now . |
6 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
7 | Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin . |
8 | The investigation he 'd instigated would , by its nature and scope , prove far more efficient than anything either of them could do alone or in tandem . |