Example sentences of "could [verb] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I could do was lie on the bed ’ , she says , ‘ it made me feel very ill and because of that I felt slightly depressed . |
| 2 | All they could do was work from day to day , from performance to performance , and through the second week , Charles started to feel his confidence in the part building up again . |
| 3 | I kept on popping questions , he would n't answer , all he could do was look as if I had no right to ask . |
| 4 | ‘ All I could do was scream down the phone — God knows what the listeners made of it . ’ |
| 5 | All she could do was crouch in a corner and sob . |
| 6 | All I could do was pile up small bits of information hoping it would make an understandable structure one day . |
| 7 | But all I could do was wrestle with the lunging hind foot , dressing the infected cleft with a crude mixture of copper sulphate and Stockholm tar and finishing with a pad of cotton wool held by a tight bandage . |
| 8 | All she could do was stumble from the room and get out of their sight as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 10 | There was a strange moment then , when he knew the bastard was still in the room , still watching him , and all he could do was wait for him to leave . |
| 11 | All I could do was shout at Gabrielle and frighten her . |
| 12 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 13 | The only thing I could do was sit outside his house on the doorstep . |
| 14 | All she could do was sit on the side of the pool with one leg in the water . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was so tired by that time that all I could do was sit in a deck-chair on the sea-front and sleep all day , but it was enough . ’ |
| 16 | All he could do was sit in the corner of his cage , hoping it would all end . |
| 17 | After that all anyone could do was sit by the bed holding her hand . |
| 18 | Horror-struck , all he could do was slam on the brakes and pray . |
| 19 | All they could do was talk about their next movie , and I 'm thinking , ‘ Have we finished this one ? ’ ’ |
| 20 | All the Board of Education could do was aim for a minimum of half-time school provision by Easter . |
| 21 | ‘ Twenty years ago two mediums told me all they could see was bags of money over my head . |
| 22 | ‘ Twenty years ago , two mediums told me all they could see was bags of money over my head . |
| 23 | It could have been Adam on your mind , I suppose , but I 'm beginning to think that there 's a little more to it than that . ’ |
| 24 | It is hard for us to understand how these same principles could have been part of the radical political programme of writers as diverse as Cobbett and Gramsci . ’ |
| 25 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 26 | It is unclear whether the ensemble is complete or what purpose the pieces served , although it seems plausible that the treasure could have been part of a decoration for a large container or a large doorway . |
| 27 | Would readers also know anything about the Art Quilt Co. , which could have been part of , or an offshoot of , Morris Bros ? |
| 28 | The only influence on their choice could have been differences in the credit terms . |
| 29 | ‘ I only saw the driver but there could have been others inside the wagon . ’ |
| 30 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |