Example sentences of "he could do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he thought he could do without the high-interest assistance of French or Swiss bankers . |
| 2 | I do n't know what Tod makes of them , except that his glands tell me he could do without any special attention , or any attention at all . |
| 3 | Jed had made his selection ; three toys stood out on their own in the middle of the floor , these being the ones that he reckoned he could do without . |
| 4 | He was tired and there was little else he could do without alarming them . |
| 5 | He could do without drink . |
| 6 | He 'd started by thinking he could do without a chauffeur . |
| 7 | The Malcolms he could do without . |
| 8 | He 's er he could do without this then ! |
| 9 | It was the best he could do at short notice . |
| 10 | He had even suppressed , as he could do at will , the brightness of his amber eyes . |
| 11 | ‘ There was n't a thing he could do at the time , but he 's got his eye on them . ’ |
| 12 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 13 | Least he could do for me . ’ |
| 14 | Her doctor had told her that there was nothing he could do for this problem , so she decided on private treatment from a doctor that a friend recommended . |
| 15 | If so , there was nothing he could do for the moment . |
| 16 | The doctor felt there was nothing more he could do for me . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He could do for us all . |
| 19 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 20 | There was nothing he could do for her now or in the future . |
| 21 | You know that he stopped by the villa every day asking what he could do for me , offering lifts , bringing books , staying to talk . |
| 22 | His grandfather had been sent to the stars in 1912 , when they still knew how to raise megaliths " the old-fashioned way " , which Ranteallo ruefully confessed to us was damn well more than he could do for his father now . |
| 23 | He would see what he could do for her . |
| 24 | I said that the best thing he could do for the whites was to demonstrate to the blacks that they fully supported the widest possible franchise , and that if he did that he would emerge as a statesman , with a statesman 's view of his responsibilities . |
| 25 | All he could do for the moment was to stand in the doorway and look about him . |
| 26 | ‘ In despair , Rol asked them what he could do for his people except lead them in the killing of others in the land . |
| 27 | He had not expected it of her and wished he could have gone away quickly without even asking if there was anything he could do for her . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I felt the pathos of this remark , as all he could do on the banjo was strum ‘ plunk plunk plunk ’ over and over again . |
| 30 | He reminded himself of the details and exulted as he saw what he could do with it . |