Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 2 | My immediate concern on that first morning in Punta Arenas was to learn all I could about the ship . |
| 3 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 4 | I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house . |
| 5 | I had discovered all I could for the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ Not too good , I 'm afraid — I did everything I could for the moment , but his kidney failure is almost complete . |
| 7 | I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward . |
| 8 | The only way I could do this was to make myself as familiar as I could to the members of the schools . |
| 9 | ‘ If someone came and pinched my bum on the escalator I 'd k-i-c-k him as far as I could down the escalator , ’ Topaz responded with gusto . |
| 10 | I ran away as fast as I could along the pavement . |
| 11 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 12 | I did the best I could in the circumstances , Mr Calder , but you can hardly blame me if I find it difficult to appear besotted with your charms ! ’ |
| 13 | After all , most people do n't think much of Liverpool as a place to work and live in , though I think it 's fantastic and I live in greater style — in the wing of a large Victorian house — than I could in the South . |
| 14 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 15 | I had never seen it other than murky before along that particular section so I decided to walk the far bank and see what I could in the swims where I had been very successful . |
| 16 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 17 | ‘ I just did what I could around the place , milking the cows and making sure everything had enough to eat . |
| 18 | She looked out to sea , as far as she could through the mist , and thought of great trees whispering under the waves . |
| 19 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 20 | There was no pressure on her to help him , but still she 'd agreed to get together as much information on Jenner as she could over the weekend . |
| 21 | Drawing back her arm , she hit him as hard as she could across the face . |
| 22 | A hard light in her eyes , she drew back her arm and hit him as hard as she could across the face . |
| 23 | There was no clear path , she was just winding through trees and keeping as close as she could to the direction he had shown . |
| 24 | Though that was easier said than done she would do her best , and try instead to enjoy what she could of the coming seven days , and treat each day as a holiday and as if she had n't a care in the world . |
| 25 | He had so manipulated the situation that if she wanted to do what she could for the twins she had no alternative but to agree to his terms . |
| 26 | Somehow she rose over her excitement , though , and concentrated all she could on the task at hand . |
| 27 | Sycorax fainted , and Ariel bent her cheek to the discoloured cheek of the old woman and licked the salt that fell in her tears , and when she reached the cabin took her inside where the rush screens would keep the flies off her wounds , and made her as comfortable as she could on the ground , with fresh dressings on her burns , a cool soaked cloth on her forehead . |
| 28 | ‘ Those who can not hear must feel the rod of correction , ’ she declaimed , raising the stick as she advanced , Martha let out a shriek , leaped to her feet and , barely aware of her action , hit the old woman as hard as she could on the side of the head , knocking her against the wall . |
| 29 | She preferred to eat as many of these as she could on the spot , as they were too messy to take away . |
| 30 | If he put down sheets of newspaper in the kitchen to keep the floor clean on wet days , one of his cats would back up to the far wall and then launch herself as fast as she could at the papers . |