Example sentences of "what i could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 2 | I chopped up the chicken itself and I put it and what I could rescue of the rice and a bit more rice which was in the cupboard into a frying pan with a stock cube and some water and I sort of poached it all together . ’ |
| 3 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 4 | People were curious to see what I could do . |
| 5 | I had twenty minutes to see what I could do about his combination locks . |
| 6 | What I could do with a nice pint of porter ! ’ |
| 7 | I was n't concentrating as much as what I could do , but I got over it really … |
| 8 | Then out it all came : what I could do , would do — if given the chance … . |
| 9 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 10 | I , I says , I 'll let you know sometime today or tomorrow and er anyway , he was expecting me to say at least two or three or four weeks you know er because I 'd put the situation I had no tools , no nothing and erm I er had a look at it and I thought what I could do , and I says I can let you have them in a week . |
| 11 | Changing from being employed to being self-employed , it 's , it 's a big change that is you and er , and er the union the union helped me and er told me what I could do and what I could n't do and all that sort of thing . |
| 12 | Right , well what I could do is I could give you another prescription now , that you can go and get if you feel you are going to need something . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ I said , wondering what I could do to stop him . |
| 14 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 15 | Mark discharged himself , came on to the film set and proceeded to tell me what I could do with the part , the film and the clinic . ’ |
| 16 | But I 'll tell you what I could do , if you like . ’ |
| 17 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 18 | I think at the point where I was struggling to understand what I could do to help myself , I certainly was n't aware of anything called patient-centred medicine at that point , or group-activity in relation to health . |
| 19 | I did n't believe her for a minute but I did n't see what I could do . |
| 20 | She asked me to think about what I could do to protect myself . |
| 21 | Er you ready for traffic and tra I cou what I could do here is wonderful being on B B C cos you can go like this and say this is radio two |
| 22 | What I could do is play a record but er I ca n't remember so bear with me for a moment . |
| 23 | I made a convincing show of joining in all this horse-play and appeared to enjoy it hugely for a week or so while I thought about what I could do to our cousin . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I showed what I could do last year , given half a chance . |
| 25 | what , what I could do I shall put these on and see what it at , starts and quickly put |
| 26 | Oh I know what I could do for that . |
| 27 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 28 | Tell you what I could do if I had something like U equals sine T or if |
| 29 | And I was I d I said I was very sorry about the wardrobe and I 'd replace it for her and see what I could do , and she said Oh do n't worry love as long you 're you 're alright that 's all I 'm worried about really . |
| 30 | " I was amazed when they told me what I could bring . |