Example sentences of "[coord] do [pron] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy . |
| 2 | He would have liked to hurry off eastwards , towards Roxburgh , to endeavour to see what had happened to Murray , and to do what he could to help . |
| 3 | We was all having a hard time , a rough time , and doing what we could to make our homes look respectable and nice for people to come into . |
| 4 | But it was a time when the boy and his mother , who lived in a little cottage just outside the town , had to earn their living from growing their own vegetables and doing what they could to help other people in order to make a living . |
| 5 | At a time when fashion , like much British culture , reflected predominantly middle-class values , and to escape these students were tapering their trousers and doing everything they could to make dull clothes more interesting , Minton 's stylish Bohemianism was much admired : he pioneered a taste for donkey jackets and had a flair for combining well-cut cast-offs and bow ties with eccentric items bought from Carnaby Street which had not yet become fashionable . |
| 6 | Obviously this sense of guilt , this idea that I had betrayed a friendship , spurred me on when I got older , not only to study birds but also actively to promote their well-being and do what I could to prevent their numbers from dwindling . |
| 7 | But it meant that an important part of Belinda 's work was to be on the alert for this kind of upset and do everything she could to minimise its effect . |
| 8 | She would beat me , push me as I was going downstairs , and do anything she could to try and harm me and my baby . |
| 9 | The loyal archers climbed into the wet furze-tangles of the hillside , and did what they could to pick off the outliers among the attackers , and those in the rear , where they were less inextricably tangled with the English . |
| 10 | The students were being fed contradictory messages and did what they could to lead their lives in the best way possible , given deteriorating conditions and mounting ideological and political debates . |
| 11 | People could see why I wanted to work in that way and did what they could to make it possible . |
| 12 | He was also a member of the advisory committee on aliens in Britain , and did what he could to ease the lot of refugees who managed to escape Nazi tyranny . |
| 13 | It gave the character limited autonomy , and did what it could to prod Tunney into taking care of the Daine problem . |
| 14 | She untied the shoelace and did what she could to tame the unruly curls , then took off her red scarf and used it to tie her hair back firmly at the nape of her neck . |
| 15 | They felt it was the duty of America to stop the world toppling to Communism and did everything they could to stop Ho Chi Minh . |
| 16 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |
| 17 | I read to him , and talked to him , and did everything I could to make him comfortable . |