Example sentences of "he could do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 2 | He reminded himself of the details and exulted as he saw what he could do with it . |
| 3 | It was all he could do to stop . |
| 4 | He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them . |
| 5 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 6 | But he felt that he could do no other . |
| 7 | Undaunted Mountbatten battled on , but he could do little to prevent the fait accompli that led eventually to Dien Bien Phu . |
| 8 | He stayed on in the room but there was nothing he could do but withdraw . |
| 9 | The tears on Cullam 's cheeks awoke in him a nausea and a rage so fierce that it was all he could do to prevent himself from striking him . |
| 10 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was nothing he could say , nothing he could do . |
| 13 | He had tried to forgive her ; there was nothing else he could do . |
| 14 | Norman Wisdom was snapped by up Rank after he had proved what he could do on TV , and the cosy cop series Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) was clearly a lineal descendant of Ealing 's The Blue Lamp . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 17 | I think he got confident of knowing what he could do . |
| 18 | Indeed McLeish reflected , that encapsulated the trouble with Tristram — everything that he could do , Perry , two years his senior , could apparently do just that bit better . |
| 19 | Though he admits he could do with the cash from ticket receipts ( £2.4m at the Science Museum in 1989 , £1.9m at the Natural History ) , Sir David argues that the British Museum ‘ should be freely available to everyone — to stretch minds , stimulate their curiosity and provide for their academic needs . ’ |
| 20 | For a new chancellor , presenting a budget for an unpopular government , it was the best he could do . |
| 21 | The general thought he could do better , and for a time considered launching his own party . |
| 22 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
| 23 | He was that stupid he could do anything . |
| 24 | He could do anything . |
| 25 | There was nothing he could do about it . |
| 26 | If he got into one of his queer moods he could do anything . |
| 27 | They now told him , in no uncertain terms , that if he had something important to communicate , he could do it in the plant car park during the lunch break , or after working hours . |
| 28 | Sausages , however , he could do to a turn . |
| 29 | That was the most he could do . |
| 30 | She had seemed so smitten , he assumed there was nothing he could do that would really offend her . |