Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [prep] the [adj] " 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 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She made her way as best she could along the overgrown path , following the house wall . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Without stats to hand myself , maybe you could post the latest top-scorer stats . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You ca n't behave in 1905 as you could in the 1840s , I could n't rush about India doing good and performing wondrous deeds , it 's absurd — ’ |
| 18 | Whoever wrote it or designed those basic garments knew that you would be struggling to learn all you could in the shortest possible time and that to give you concise diagrams and stitch and row numbers would cut down any need for extra calculations by you . |
| 19 | After Munich there was a positive lurch to prepare as best we could with the near-hopeless equipment available . |
| 20 | We dried off as best we could at the expensive on-site tourist hotel and , as the mist rose and a pale sun came out , paid our money and entered the site itself . |
| 21 | ‘ We got as close as we could to the shrimping rig , then Neil Henshaw and myself climbed aboard . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | United were unlucky on Saturday … nothing they could about the first Lincoln goal … a blockbuster … from Baraclough … |
| 26 | United were unlucky on Saturday … nothing they could about the first Lincoln goal … a blockbuster … from Baraclough … |
| 27 | They slotted them in as best they could on the flat seat backs . |
| 28 | Both men started to dress , taking it in turns to wash as best they could in the small sink perched on the cell wall . |
| 29 | Nor can they reduce the burden of government debt by inflation , as they could in the 1970s , because the abolition of capital controls prevents it . |
| 30 | A row of limp , blank faced figures sat in front of the windows , begging what they could from the steady stream of shoppers . |