Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [Wh det] he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I immediately wrote to Colonel Sandford asking for his help in collecting my caravan , and he promised to do whatever he could . |
| 2 | He agreed to do what he could . |
| 3 | My father was a generous man , and so he cautiously agreed to do what he could . |
| 4 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 5 | Joe held out his hand , they shook hands and walked away from each other , Joe feeling that he had done what he could to save Maureen from wrecking her life and suffering years of pain but troubled by sympathy and liking for Chris . |
| 6 | Feeling that he had done what he could , Redpath walked back to the steps . |
| 7 | He would not swear that the Prince of Wales had enjoyed every minute , but at least he , Auguste Didier , had done what he could . |
| 8 | There was no place for a young man of humbler origins who had shown what he could do by his own energy and determination . |
| 9 | He had to do what he could . |
| 10 | Norman Wisdom was snapped by up Rank after he had proved what he could do on TV , and the cosy cop series Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) was clearly a lineal descendant of Ealing 's The Blue Lamp . |
| 11 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 12 | His enthusiasm was to visit Ireland and he had read whatever he could get hold of by Irish writers , but especially by Flann O'Brien . |
| 13 | As an anxious new father , Belinda 's partner , Jem , read everything he could find about Down 's syndrome because he wanted to know what he could expect from the future . |