Example sentences of "what [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 2 | Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) . |
| 3 | ‘ What I could n't see was how the life and death of Someone Else ( whoever he was ) 2000 years ago could help us here and now — except in so far as his example helped us . ’ |
| 4 | What I could n't see was how the life and death of Someone Else ‘ whoever he was ’ 2000 years ago could help us here and now . ’ |
| 5 | midnight , physically tired but spiritually exalted , I found myself quoting what I could recall of Keats ' sonnet , a new planet had swum into my ken . |
| 6 | He caught my astonished stare , and paused as he was jotting down the orders , glancing down at himself in apparent wonder at what I could be looking at . |
| 7 | I only read a little in the books he gave me , picked up what I could . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People were curious to see what I could do . |
| 10 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 11 | I 've been on the mooch trying to see what I could find , ’ Bryce explained . |
| 12 | Instead I would go to Amantani in Lake Titicaca , reputedly a quiet , touristless island , to try to reconstruct what I could of my journal and other writings . |
| 13 | What I could see was not the Land Rover but a rock . |
| 14 | I checked the map against what I could see . |
| 15 | And so I had to do what I could ; I … |
| 16 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 17 | I had twenty minutes to see what I could do about his combination locks . |
| 18 | What I could do with a nice pint of porter ! ’ |
| 19 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | I 'd know what I could buy , how long it would take me to save for something … a new dress or whatever . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Just outstanding , ’ Rickie said , but referring to what I could not tell . |
| 23 | The Editor was in a very reasonable mood and asked what I could suggest . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | What I could not understand was the absence of consensus among adults as to what constituted death , and as to its meaning . |
| 27 | I went on , telling him how pitiful her situation was , if he would only go and see he would understand , and how I felt it my duty to do what I could , working myself up into a noble sweat of righteousness . |
| 28 | Although I did what I could to try to conceive a girl , I could n't be sure that I had . |
| 29 | Amitha : I was n't involved in setting up the Group , having then not accepted my lesbian identity , but from what I could see there was a lot of resentful and suspicious comparison between the BWG and the LGWG . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew he was already dead but I just wanted to do what I could . ’ |