Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] all [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | The two young girls , I predicted , would not find such changes so difficult to accommodate , but I did all I could to see that Mrs Clements suffered the least adjustments , to the extent that I undertook for myself a number of duties which you may consider most broad-minded of a butler to do . |
| 3 | I did all I could to encourage Bernstein to chat with John , who seemed even then to be developing into one of Canada 's most versatile and brilliant conductors . |
| 4 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 5 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |
| 6 | You did all you could . |
| 7 | You did all you could . |
| 8 | You did all you could |
| 9 | ‘ We did all we could , ’ the inspector said . |
| 10 | Then we see the health care professional come out of the room and say something like , ‘ I 'm sorry , we did all we could . ’ |
| 11 | She almost expected him to say , ‘ We did all we could , all that was humanly possible . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I 'm satisfied we did all we could . |
| 14 | Accordingly , they did all they could to protect the nobility 's privileged position . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Between them they supplied all they could remember of the encounter by the roped-off enclosure above the river . |
| 17 | And he did all he could to make the food bad , except what he ate himself . |
| 18 | He did all he could to stop this . ’ |