Example sentences of "[pron] could do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 2 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 3 | There are lots of things I could do for you , ma'am . |
| 4 | ‘ It was the least I could do for them . ’ |
| 5 | Ex-presidential candidate Ross Perot told The Wall Street Journal he did n't mean he would take John Akers ' job when he told TV host Larry King that ‘ If there 's something I could do for IBM , well , I owe them that forever . ’ |
| 6 | So now I needed a job that I could do for approximately four months — something well-paid , light , congenial , preferably among colleagues with a physical inability to drop their eyes below shoulder level . |
| 7 | ‘ The things I could do for him , ’ she sighed . |
| 8 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 9 | I did n't recognise him , nor did there seem to be anything I could do for him . |
| 10 | Oh I know what I could do for that . |
| 11 | I made a convincing show of joining in all this horse-play and appeared to enjoy it hugely for a week or so while I thought about what I could do to our cousin . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
| 13 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 14 | It was a flimsy pretext and might not get me anywhere , but it was the best I could do at such short notice . |
| 15 | ‘ You would n't know to look at me now , ’ she 'd say , ‘ but I could hold them spellbound , the things I could do on that bike in a crash helmet and a pair of tights and a stars and stripes swimsuit . ’ |
| 16 | Do n't look at me like that , it was the best I could do on the spur of the moment . ’ |
| 17 | ’ It 's no exactly my own idea of good taste and I could do wi' a suit that 's a better fit , but beggars can nae be choosers , as they say . |
| 18 | I feel like that the situation in which Carrington was in is what God does and that I 'm part of that situation , and that he was going to die , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 19 | It so , was there anything I could do about it ? |
| 20 | I had twenty minutes to see what I could do about his combination locks . |
| 21 | ( There was nothing I could do about my khaki shorts except tighten the wizened Dan Dare belt that Brynley had passed on . ) |
| 22 | I told him about Hirondelle and how Deacon Billingsley had lied about the yacht 's fate , and I confessed that though there was nothing I could do about a corrupt policeman , nor about what I strongly suspected had been the murder of a yacht 's crew , I was still curious about the island . |
| 23 | There was nothing I could do about it . ’ |
| 24 | Lying about my family 's social status came easily enough , but there was nothing I could do about the more visible signs of poverty . |
| 25 | Since there was nothing I could do about what was happening to my body , I decided — not altogether consciously — to ignore it and to interest myself in other , more spiritual matters . |
| 26 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about it . |
| 27 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about the accident . |
| 28 | I rang my dealer who told me there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 29 | Dawn 's nervousness while she was attached to my hand lasted for quite a while and there was nothing I could do about it other than reassure her . |
| 30 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |