Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found out all I could about the various parties including the Fascist party . |
| 2 | Armed with the phone number of the vicar of All Saints , I determined to find out all I could about the mysterious stone . |
| 3 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 4 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 5 | I mean , I , I did what I could in the fifth issue , but you just run out of cash , that 's the trouble , but I mean the sixth issue is good . |
| 6 | Well this is this is what I was trying to work out looking at the banking erm module that Sia , Sandra 's just given me could for the nine weeks right ? |
| 7 | She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig . |
| 8 | She made her way as best she could along the overgrown path , following the house wall . |
| 9 | She ran as hard as she could across the muddy field , across the rickety bridge , and finally collapsed beyond the line of oaks where the stream curved round to mark the boundary of the colonel 's property . |
| 10 | He had but to comment favourably on the kittenish qualities of Babs Osborne for her to curl up as best she could on the plush seat beside him , her thumb in her mouth . |
| 11 | For one awful moment , she thought she had persuaded her , then , with a cry of triumph , Rose hurled the ring as far as she could into the surrounding darkness . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't say that , ’ denied Isabel quickly , clinging to her dignity as best she could under the growing amusement in her tormentor 's expression . |
| 13 | Those people whose names you 've just , you 've given me their details from , could I ask you er if the next time you see them if it 's within the next few days or certainly erm if , if you could over the next day or two give them a ring just to let them know that I do intend to contact them , I 'll probably contact them within the next week or so . |
| 14 | You could at the same time consider making an enduring power of attorney — to appoint someone you trust to manage your affairs if you become incapable of doing so . |
| 15 | After Munich there was a positive lurch to prepare as best we could with the near-hopeless equipment available . |
| 16 | ‘ We got as close as we could to the shrimping rig , then Neil Henshaw and myself climbed aboard . |
| 17 | If we set the poem 's rubric , which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau , on one side for the moment , we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance — a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century . |
| 18 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 19 | So they drank it , and ate what they could of the unprepossessing fare , conscious of the hostile gaze of the stuffed fish in the corner . |
| 20 | United were unlucky on Saturday … nothing they could about the first Lincoln goal … a blockbuster … from Baraclough … |
| 21 | United were unlucky on Saturday … nothing they could about the first Lincoln goal … a blockbuster … from Baraclough … |
| 22 | They slotted them in as best they could on the flat seat backs . |
| 23 | Both men started to dress , taking it in turns to wash as best they could in the small sink perched on the cell wall . |
| 24 | A row of limp , blank faced figures sat in front of the windows , begging what they could from the steady stream of shoppers . |
| 25 | If private capital can be attracted — and I believe it could to the right project — it seems to me entirely right that we should do what we can as Government to create the right climate for a successful link to be built . |
| 26 | In these circumstances each polytechnic evolved as best it could in the various contexts within which it had to operate — for finance , primarily its local authority ; for permission to develop a course , the Regional Advisory Council ; for course approval , the CNAA and other validating bodies . |
| 27 | The question is whether the allegiance and the democratic commitment which goes with it could in the foreseeable future be transferred from the nation state to a federal superstate of Europe . |
| 28 | Churchill in the cabinet in August 1954 expressed the fear that the United States , conscious that it must soon lose its nuclear lead over the USSR , might be tempted in the interval to try to snatch what advantages it could in the Cold War . |
| 29 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 30 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |