Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] we could " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hot potato is being passed on to the courts and ministers are safe in the knowledge they can hold up their hands and say : ‘ We tried everything we could ’ . ’ |
| 2 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 3 | Stan told him we could all go , and what 's more he 'd give us all free transfers to go quickly . |
| 4 | I told her we could share what we had , but she would not have it . |
| 5 | We identified what we could cope with individually and collectively . ’ |
| 6 | Speaking in jerky English round a thin cigar , Maté informed me we could get to work immediately . |
| 7 | ‘ The swirling wind took away from us what we are best at — playing neat football — but we still showed what we could do . ’ |
| 8 | We retrieved the dented , cracked , chipped and broken and repaired what we could and used it ourselves . |
| 9 | If the nuns saw us we could not meet again , and our future was already so uncertain . |
| 10 | It is the organ of perception , for if we remembered nothing we could perceive nothing . |
| 11 | But dozens of representatives shouted ‘ Yes ’ when he recalled the European election campaign and asked them : ‘ Can any of us say in all honesty that we did everything we could ? ’ |
| 12 | We did everything we could to encourage her to be pleased with being brown . |
| 13 | ‘ We did everything we could , ’ said Dierdriu , pacing the room again . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry — we did everything we could . ’ |
| 15 | My parents ' solution was to take Ann into their bed , and Robert and I did what we could to look after them . |
| 16 | One of our fine teachers elected to stay and run that , while we did what we could , with Madriya 's help , to feed our officers . |
| 17 | Spokesman Pierre-Marie Bouchard said yesterday : ‘ We did what we could once we were contacted . |
| 18 | ‘ We did what we could once we were contacted . |
| 19 | We did what we could to help him but I am afraid it was little enough . |
| 20 | We 'd got word of these outlaws passing through the woods , though they never came near the villages , and then this master-carpenter and his fellow came back to us and told us what had befallen them , and we did what we could for them to set them on their way back to Shrewsbury . |
| 21 | ‘ While they needed us , we did what we could , ’ said Shirley . |
| 22 | Yes , we did what we could to save the world , my father and I. |
| 23 | We did what we could but , ideally , I 'd like to see him moved to a proper unit , specialising in orthopaedics . |
| 24 | ‘ We did what we could surgically , but Niall 's right , it needs specialist orthopaedic attention . |
| 25 | ‘ Everyone of us knows that we did what we could to help the people in Bosnia — that 's what is important in the end . ’ |
| 26 | It had everything we could think of — lights , PA system , lectern and its own generator . |
| 27 | ‘ When I was fifteen , I had what we could call today a nervous breakdown . |
| 28 | That 's what Dave said what we could do if we money , you know , all get a , you know you , like you , if you had a partner to do it , you would n't be stuck at home . |
| 29 | The one the Federation produced is very good , but a lot of reading in it , so , we wanted one we could hand out to people and the the intention is that we , we go on the market next week Thursday and Friday to hand out that leaflet , also to advertise the meeting on the tenth , erm , so that really is as far , and obviously the meetings that , that Lilly just said that Kathy 's coming , that would be an opportunity to erm you know , discuss it further with her . |
| 30 | We considered what we could do to help and decided to link it with our interest in running . ’ |