Example sentences of "[pron] could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't charge I I I 'd try and get as much as I could off him cos he was working . |
| 2 | I saved up these incidents to amuse Leslie in my letters , and related as much as I could about our domestic and leisure activities . |
| 3 | In the year following that first visit , I read and devoured everything I could about Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 4 | Armed with the phone number of the vicar of All Saints , I determined to find out all I could about the mysterious stone . |
| 5 | My immediate concern on that first morning in Punta Arenas was to learn all I could about the ship . |
| 6 | He was also sure that I ought to mug up as much as I could about Italy . |
| 7 | I literally had to plunge into the abyss and find out what I could about what they were doing to me , or what they wanted me to do . |
| 8 | I found out all I could about the various parties including the Fascist party . |
| 9 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 10 | I roared ‘ Let go ! ’ as loudly as I could into his ear . |
| 11 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 12 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 13 | The quietness seemed somehow to be incredibly loud , perhaps because wherever else I have been I could at the very least , listening hard , pick out some distant sounds of life , or even the wind in the trees . |
| 14 | I hated it , and Dr Kelleher got some of them taken down so that I could at least see the daylight . |
| 15 | Perhaps I could at least stay until she wakes up and I can explain what 's happening . ’ |
| 16 | I remember how happy I was when I was accepted at Hamburg University , because I could at last get away from my mother 's asparagus dishes . ’ |
| 17 | I did anything I could at home when the children were small to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 18 | She gave me Zdenka 's German address and asked if I could at least write to her daughter from time to time to keep her spirits up . |
| 19 | So I did n't join any of them I kept independent while I could at any rate and then . |
| 20 | But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time . |
| 21 | You see if I had the original identification I could at least match it up against a description . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I could at least ask them . ’ |
| 23 | So by offering English , French , Greek and Music I could at least attempt to get into Somerville by December 1923 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus . |
| 26 | I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while . |
| 27 | ‘ I have never sought an honour in my life — I just did what I could for my home village where I was born and raised . |
| 28 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 29 | I wanted the freedom and the encouragement to do the best I could for myself and my family . |
| 30 | I had discovered all I could for the moment . |