Example sentences of "[pers pn] could with the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | After Munich there was a positive lurch to prepare as best we could with the near-hopeless equipment available . |
4 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
5 | Ember seized and aimed it at the control panel beside the door and the room went as dark as it could with the little amber safety-lights glimmering in case of accident . |