Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have reminded me in her remote stillness , her lucid silence , of someone I used to know , used to love . |
| 2 | Someone we used to know at Plumford . ’ |
| 3 | I said nothing you can to change it because of the way the system works . |
| 4 | I wept buckets , wrote to him , telephoned his mother — did everything I could to explain how devastated I felt . |
| 5 | I did everything I could to save the boy 's life , but to no avail . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I did everything I could to avoid them . |
| 8 | I read to him , and talked to him , and did everything I could to make him comfortable . |
| 9 | Darling , I did everything I could to make it pleasurable , not painful … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was doing everything I could to keep him because of the jobs in the area . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I tried everything I could to keep Kearney alive , ’ he added . |
| 12 | er I hope I did everything I could to help . |
| 13 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 14 | It will take a while , I 'm afraid , but I 'll do everything I can to persuade the family that they should meet you . ’ |
| 15 | Ms Ogata , speaking in Nairobi , said : ‘ I have done everything I can to persuade leaders to distinguish humanitarian aid from the conflict , but they have not allowed us to carry out our mandate . ’ |
| 16 | This year has been the most difficult and disturbing of my 40-year reign , but it has brought home to me that I must do everything I can to continue to carry out that duty . |
| 17 | ‘ I could not help recalling , ’ Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , wrote in his diary in September , ‘ that on the last day of Parliament Mr. Baldwin had walked across the yard outside [ the House of Commons ] and had said ‘ I will do everything I can to help the Government in making economies , but I will not enter a Coalition Government . ' |
| 18 | I promise I 'll do everything I can to help the rest of you — ‘ |
| 19 | If it 's helpful to you , I 'm perfectly ready to listen and to do everything I can to help ’ . ’ |
| 20 | Geoff , a quality assurance group leader at British Aerospace in Lostock near Bolton , explained : ‘ After a series of extremely expensive phone calls to the Society 's Chairman , Mr Joe Carroll , in Ireland , last month , I was so bitten by the bug I wanted to do everything I can to help from my armchair here in Wigan , so to speak . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm very keen to get success at the club , and I want to do everything I can to bring it about . |
| 22 | I spent the past nine and a half years doing everything I can to keep everything about my daughter secret . |
| 23 | ‘ I think there 's something I ought to say but I 'm afraid it is n't , well , gentlemanly . ’ |
| 24 | I think that 's perhaps something I ought to explain first and foremost . |
| 25 | ‘ Cheryl , there 's something I ought to tell you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Hrun , ’ he said quickly , ‘ there 's something I ought to tell you . |
| 27 | David — there 's something I ought to tell you . |
| 28 | There 's something I ought to have sorted out , I can sense it , but I need to think . |
| 29 | There was one I used to pick in another field years ago , a purple flower with pretty leaves which sometimes turned all colours , but I never knew its name . |
| 30 | There 's a sort of market here , like the one I used to go to with Marie and Sonja , cept not so big . |