Example sentences of "[vb pp] [Wh det] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 2 | The scene of crime team had done what they could , which was n't much . |
| 3 | Well we only had Epping hospital dear , that 's all we had , there was only Epping and er they were er you know done what they could very good and we had a dentist , oh dentist you had to go er , oh right to Old Harlow , up er |
| 4 | The embalmers had done what they could but , even as they walked up the nave , both Cranston and Athelstan caught the whiff of putrefaction . |
| 5 | She had done what she could . |
| 6 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 7 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 8 | He had come to his sister Elizabeth 's rescue in her time of trouble , contributing almost beyond the call of duty ; he had already done what he could to help his young nephew Robert — now what of Benjamin ? |
| 9 | Mary 's marriage to Henry had certainly taken place by February 1381 , and Thomas might well have done what he could to prevent her marrying , but Froissart casts Thomas as a villain in his account of English politics in Richard II 's reign , and not every detail in the story should necessarily be accepted at face value . |
| 10 | Joe held out his hand , they shook hands and walked away from each other , Joe feeling that he had done what he could to save Maureen from wrecking her life and suffering years of pain but troubled by sympathy and liking for Chris . |
| 11 | Feeling that he had done what he could , Redpath walked back to the steps . |
| 12 | He would not swear that the Prince of Wales had enjoyed every minute , but at least he , Auguste Didier , had done what he could . |
| 13 | There comes a moment when you know you have done what you could do with something and everything else would be fiddling . |
| 14 | " Well , doctor , you 've done what you could , and you 've helped a lot by coming along . |
| 15 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 16 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 17 | Speaking to BBC radio , Lawrence Eagleburger said the US had done what it could for an agreement on farm subsidies , which had derailed the talks . |
| 18 | There was no place for a young man of humbler origins who had shown what he could do by his own energy and determination . |
| 19 | No , I 'm afraid I 've never really had what you could call a boyfriend , someone to come calling to take me out . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So Bully seized what he could see that looked like offering a bit of fun . |
| 22 | He 'd never known what it could be like before . |
| 23 | Those who claimed to have seen it were then asked what they could recall of its contents , and to what uses it had been put . |
| 24 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 25 | Young servant girls paid whatever they could out of their often scanty wages to their families . |
| 26 | His enthusiasm was to visit Ireland and he had read whatever he could get hold of by Irish writers , but especially by Flann O'Brien . |