Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] could [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wept buckets , wrote to him , telephoned his mother — did everything I could to explain how devastated I felt . |
| 2 | I did everything I could to save the boy 's life , but to no avail . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt I was doing everything I could to nourish and protect the baby and I was so sure about the rightness of it all that I did n't want a scan . |
| 4 | I did everything I could to avoid them . |
| 5 | I read to him , and talked to him , and did everything I could to make him comfortable . |
| 6 | Darling , I did everything I could to make it pleasurable , not painful … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was doing everything I could to keep him because of the jobs in the area . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I tried everything I could to keep Kearney alive , ’ he added . |
| 9 | er I hope I did everything I could to help . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've done everything you could to find her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When a message came from a friend in Prague that their mother had disappeared , Miss Harder did everything she could to console them and they became very close . |
| 13 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 14 | ‘ Hello , ’ Myra said again , and Claudia managed to answer , asking her to do everything she could to get an address or phone number if Dana got in touch with her . |
| 15 | We did everything we could to encourage her to be pleased with being brown . |
| 16 | In the 3 years before she died , her family did everything they could to support her , but it was a struggle . |
| 17 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 20 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As devout Catholics , the O'Dells preferred not to attend the civil ceremony , but that did n't stop them doing everything they could to make the reception an unforgettable occasion . |
| 23 | With Niki still on his bed of pain , but perhaps beginning to turn his iron will towards recovery , Ferrari did everything they could to try to get the Austrian Grand Prix cancelled . |
| 24 | Sir Patrick and Foreign Affairs Minister Dick Spring said that they would do everything they could to try to bring about an early renewal of the talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | However , the civil servants at the Soviet Ministry , headed by the legendary figure who had charge of the entire country 's fine arts , the ‘ unsinkable ’ Genrikh Popov ( as the experts euphemistically dubbed him ) , along with the Director of the Tretyakov Gallery , Yuri Korolev , did everything they could to ensure that the project was never realized . |
| 26 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 27 | On 18 September , Environment Minister Chris Patten flew to Brussels for talks with Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana , according to The Times still ‘ optimistic that he could head off threatened prosecution of Britain by the European Court ’ by showing that ‘ Britain was doing everything it could to comply with the European drinking water legislation . ’ |
| 28 | The Belgian government did everything it could to keep the works in the country : a genealogist was employed to trace distant relatives of the artist , and a new law on donations of works of art was passed , with the express purpose of encouraging his heirs to pay the death duties in kind ( in which case roughly 80% of the collection would have remained in Belgium ) . |
| 29 | He wanted his son to be a champion , and he did everything he could to force him to go on racing against his better judgement ! ’ |
| 30 | Nick Moore did everything he could to persuade Derbyshire police that he , not Boler , was the robber . |