Example sentences of "[vb past] all [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er helped all you could and then er |
| 2 | Somehow she rose over her excitement , though , and concentrated all she could on the task at hand . |
| 3 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 4 | His heart contracted and the thought struck him that this domestic scene encompassed all he could ever want of life . |
| 5 | She had also read about old people 's homes that ruthlessly exploited their pensioners : unscrupulous proprietors grabbed all they could squeeze from the social services but gave little back to the residents ; they cut corners on staff , food , laundry , and amenities and added to their profits by pocketing the difference between their sparse expenditures and the sums they actually received . |
| 6 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |
| 7 | He also learned all he could of the ground and the way it shaped the wind , because command of the wind meant command of flight and that meant dominance and security . |
| 8 | ‘ We did all we could , ’ the inspector said . |
| 9 | Then we see the health care professional come out of the room and say something like , ‘ I 'm sorry , we did all we could . ’ |
| 10 | She almost expected him to say , ‘ We did all we could , all that was humanly possible . ’ |
| 11 | Contacting Gotha itself was a great problem … we did all we could to get the picture back to them … due to political circumstances we were unsuccessful ’ . |
| 12 | I 'm satisfied we did all we could . |
| 13 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 14 | Accordingly , they did all they could to protect the nobility 's privileged position . |
| 15 | Instead of fostering the peasants ' bid for liberty , the commissars emasculated local peasants organizations and , by forcibly requisitioning grain , did all they could to subject the peasantry to the dictates of the State . |
| 16 | They did all they could to encourage peasant resistance , to enlighten the masses and to expose the myth of the Tsar as a caring ‘ little father ’ . |
| 17 | President Kaunda and Prime Minister Vorster , suddenly arriving there in person , did all they could to push Smith and the ANC together . |
| 18 | Nevertheless they swallowed their wounded pride and did all they could to help if she asked for advice . |
| 19 | MI6 accepted his decision with ill-grace and throughout the rest of the war did all it could to hinder the work of SOE . |
| 20 | Once again , Ferrari did all it could to hamper his chances , to upset his equilibrium , to seek to guarantee their own success . |
| 21 | The Labour Party leadership did all it could to limit any appeal which the Left outside the Party might exercise over its members . |
| 22 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 23 | AYRTON SENNA did all he could to keep the championship open by yesterday winning the Spanish Grand Prix which , after a week of accusations and exclusions , was something of an anti-climax . |
| 24 | The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants , using his great wealth to bribe informers . |
| 25 | In resisting Bruno 's vision , Kepler did all he could to protect the cosmic identity of his own solar system and ( in accordance with his religious beliefs ) of humanity 's special place within it . |
| 26 | And he did all he could to make the food bad , except what he ate himself . |
| 27 | He did all he could to stop this . ’ |
| 28 | Talbot plotted against Errington and did all he could to bring about the coadjutor 's eventual resignation . |
| 29 | ‘ Reverend Father did all he could for Brother Hopkins . |
| 30 | When the cheque was dishonoured the seller did all he could to trace the rogue and car and he informed the police . |