Example sentences of "way [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way I could show that in my opinion they were absolutely wrong was to start an action for libel . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to make a living out of music , any way I could . |
| 3 | ‘ The only way I could organise my time , ’ he explains . |
| 4 | ‘ I was approached by some of the victims of that situation ( the Northern Ireland conflict ) to help them in whatever way I could . |
| 5 | There was no way I could bring up children there . |
| 6 | There was no way I could bring up young children there . |
| 7 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 8 | I did n't have a recording of it with me , Mrs Thatcher was already on her feet and there was no way I could interrupt to reverse the decision . |
| 9 | I punished him in every way I could think of — I married him to Minnie , gave him children , got him bitten by a vampire so that he grew fangs and finally had him turned into a rat by a wicked witch , a great improvement . |
| 10 | It got to the stage where there was no way I could back out , ’ he said . |
| 11 | However , on the last service I had to check the tappets — after removing the rocker cover the only way I could turn the engine over was to put the car in gear and push it backwards . |
| 12 | For me , not having one was strangely liberating and concentrating : there was no way I could postpone the moment . |
| 13 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 14 | It seemed that the only way I could be sure of making teams in future was to be so far ahead of the opposition that they could n't possibly leave me out . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry but I 'm afraid there is no way I could take an untrained girl onto my books . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I hurt you but it was the only way I could do 'im some damage . ’ |
| 17 | There is no way I could draw a living creature with the animal posing in front of me . |
| 18 | However , I must say that it was a privilege to be there with them and their Mum 's and to help in whatever way I could , be it baby sitting or helping to push a baby buggy round the ‘ stations ’ ( who thought that one up ? ’ ) . |
| 19 | ‘ There was no way I could have got out of the car when I saw the lorry coming towards me , ’ Adam , 26 , said yesterday . |
| 20 | If the Inland Revenue were to assess this payment , is there any other way I could cover my staff 's lunch expenses without making them liable for tax ? |
| 21 | There is no way I could draw a living creature with the animal posing in front of me . |
| 22 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 23 | At this point I also realised ( and told Dang ) that there was no way I could teach 15 people at one time , with one machine without boring the other 14 of them . |
| 24 | I thought that way I could bring them together . |
| 25 | ‘ Up to that point , all I was interested in was relieving myself any way I could , and the women were throwing themselves at me and it was great , it was pleasurable , no problem . |
| 26 | The only saving grace is that under pressure your decision-making seems to speed up and I 'm pleased to say that , instead of freezing , I quickly resolved that there was no way I could brake or slew the aircraft — still travelling at 55 or 60 mph — away from the ditch . |
| 27 | Eventually I thought the only way I could control what I was doing was to decide on one specific charity — I chose Muscular Dystrophy — and work just with them , which is what I did . |
| 28 | There was no way I could know just what passed between Mme G and her son when they were together and alone . |
| 29 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 30 | Only there was n't but one way I could survive Mars-U and that was by gambling . |