Example sentences of "all [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I lay on my nail scissors by mistake — they were under the rug — and just at the moment , well , to be graphic , an awful pain from outside was all I could feel . ’ |
| 2 | When all I could reply were the two forlorn words , ‘ No English , ’ he asked me if I knew French . |
| 3 | All I could think of was that joke — ‘ What has four legs and an arm ? |
| 4 | All I could feel were five soft muzzles have a friendly sniff . |
| 5 | A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with . |
| 6 | Kit Kats were about all I could afford . |
| 7 | Eva was only two then , and all I could think was that he 'd stolen my little girl . |
| 8 | ‘ No , Jordi , no ! ’ was all I could say as the train slowly carried him away into the dawn . |
| 9 | All I could say in reply was : ‘ What for ? ’ |
| 10 | All I could think of was to give a sickly smile and to murmur , ‘ I think you are probably right . ’ |
| 11 | At the time all I could think was , three days — anyone can put up with anything for three days . |
| 12 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 13 | ‘ I was so tired by that time that all I could do was sit in a deck-chair on the sea-front and sleep all day , but it was enough . ’ |
| 14 | All I could say was , with what special materials does he propose to undertake this great task ? |
| 15 | ‘ Lemurs are a delicacy in Madagascar and it was all I could do to stop my fellow passengers eating them , ’ he says . |
| 16 | ‘ All I could see of the explosion was this huge cloud of dust . |
| 17 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 18 | It swam straight into my chest and bowled me over , thank God it swam on but the adrenalin was flowing so all I could think about was what sort of picture I 'd got . |
| 19 | The two young girls , I predicted , would not find such changes so difficult to accommodate , but I did all I could to see that Mrs Clements suffered the least adjustments , to the extent that I undertook for myself a number of duties which you may consider most broad-minded of a butler to do . |
| 20 | All I could offer was a hatchback whose tyres puncture as soon as it catches sight of anything other than motorway . |
| 21 | All I could think was , stop the world ; I thought he was going to blow the Championship . |
| 22 | Now all I could see was spray . |
| 23 | All I could see was the blue sky and miles of undulating grit scored by tyre-tracks . |
| 24 | He was a tall , heavy-built almost surly type who spoke no English ; all I could do was listen patiently , smile , and offer a small but polite salute on departure . |
| 25 | I did all I could to encourage Bernstein to chat with John , who seemed even then to be developing into one of Canada 's most versatile and brilliant conductors . |
| 26 | ‘ I took out all I could find . ’ |
| 27 | The idea of God pursuing a whole family like a demented genealogist seemed grossly unfair , but as it was a commandment all I could do was hope that neither my father nor any of my immediate ancestors had done anything really sinful , and that if they had , God did n't know of my relationship . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 30 | She got hold of the railings and all I could hear was screams . |