Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had invited everyone I could think of to tea , and we had been invited back , but it was not her style , and when she complained that it was not right for her ‘ to be living among all these old people ’ I understood very well what she meant . |
| 2 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 3 | There was nothing I could think of to say , so I said nothing . |
| 4 | I feel like that the situation in which Carrington was in is what God does and that I 'm part of that situation , and that he was going to die , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 5 | I knew there was nothing I could do but that did n't seem to be the point . |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing I could n't take , ’ he replied , with the same arrogant grin . |
| 7 | There was nothing I could do . |
| 8 | There was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 9 | I just could n't get past this amp 's tendency toward a cold , smudgy type of overdrive and , what 's more , nothing I could do — including employing the ‘ Enhance ’ circuit — could warm or smooth it up . |
| 10 | ‘ They were a bit wild in the studio , but nothing I could n't handle ! ’ he laughs . |
| 11 | I do not play golf , nor do I have any particular interest in the sport , so there was nothing I could teach Peter in the practical sense . |
| 12 | ( There was nothing I could do about my khaki shorts except tighten the wizened Dan Dare belt that Brynley had passed on . ) |
| 13 | There was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 14 | I told him about Hirondelle and how Deacon Billingsley had lied about the yacht 's fate , and I confessed that though there was nothing I could do about a corrupt policeman , nor about what I strongly suspected had been the murder of a yacht 's crew , I was still curious about the island . |
| 15 | There was nothing I could do about it . ’ |
| 16 | Lying about my family 's social status came easily enough , but there was nothing I could do about the more visible signs of poverty . |
| 17 | Since there was nothing I could do about what was happening to my body , I decided — not altogether consciously — to ignore it and to interest myself in other , more spiritual matters . |
| 18 | ‘ There was nothing I could do , ’ conceded Graf . |
| 19 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about it . |
| 20 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about the accident . |
| 21 | I rang my dealer who told me there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 22 | There was nothing I could do but go on . |
| 23 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |
| 24 | Dawn 's nervousness while she was attached to my hand lasted for quite a while and there was nothing I could do about it other than reassure her . |
| 25 | ‘ It was not my choice , ’ she said , ‘ but there was nothing I could do . |
| 26 | And when in 1973 the Lord Chief Justice was asked to ‘ give some guidance upon the phrase ‘ cohabiting as man and wife ’ he swiftly handed back the poisoned cup , saying that the phrase was ‘ so well known that nothing I could say about it could possibly assist in its interpretation hereafter ’ . |
| 27 | My father was the sweetest man in the world and there was nothing I could fight him for , or do against him , or he against me , because nothing was said that I did n't agree with , or he did n't agree with , because I was a very easy child . |
| 28 | There was nothing I could do . |
| 29 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |
| 30 | And there was nothing I could do . |