Example sentences of "[pron] could [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also sure that I ought to mug up as much as I could about Italy . |
| 2 | Well I could on Tuesday to get to the normal run . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't see myself doing any better with Sarah and that precious boy of has than I could with Riddle . ’ |
| 4 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 5 | I suggested as gently as I could to Jean-Claude that he give Chaillot a ring . |
| 6 | Can you wonder that Virginia , the Elf Second , used to put her head down , keep her eyes fixed straight in front of her , and pedal as hard as she could past Wardle Wood and the old woman who lived in the cottage in the middle of it . |
| 7 | But she also needed to come to terms with the topsy-turviness of her situation that , while she wanted to spend every moment she could with Ven , she suddenly felt a need to be alone ! |
| 8 | She could to Charlie , though . |
| 9 | She managed throughout the following years to maintain a front of firmness and dignity , earning the respect of the Germans and at the same time extracting the best terms she could for Sark and its people , with whom she shared the hunger and other privations of occupation , the anxieties engendered by two unsuccessful British commando raids , and the pain of separation when many islanders , including her husband , were deported to German prison camps . |
| 10 | As a child she had feverishly researched everything she could about Andalucía because he came from there , the most southerly region in Spain , the most fascinating and the biggest , the land of guitars and castanets , the land of the swirling dresses and sharply stamping feet of flamenco dancers . |
| 11 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 12 | She turned her face as far as she could towards Marie . |
| 13 | Alice fulfilled the orders , then sat down as far as she could from Alfred who had just arrived . |
| 14 | Dexter guessed that she thought the same as him but was keen to learn as much as she could from Blufton about Nicola and her motives for giving these ‘ facts ’ to the chairman of TVL . |
| 15 | On arrival at Edinburgh Airport , two Landrovers awaited us and our luggage , and we drove as fast as we could to Gleneagles , to try to be in time for the Moët et Chandon reception which is the first party of the Rolex-Jackie Stewart Challenge weekend ; this was timed for 8pm ! |
| 16 | We only brought you and the boy as swiftly as we could to Andernesse . ’ |
| 17 | We crossed Holywell Road , Deep Ditch , and travelled as fast as we could around Charterhouse and Clerkenwell , keeping well clear of the city before taking the road south to New Cross . |
| 18 | Once they had left the shop and collected their horses , Athelstan and Cranston rode as fast as they could up Piper Alley back into the main thoroughfare . |
| 19 | It was almost as if they considered him to be as much a victim of his government as they were of theirs , as if he could no more be held responsible for Reagan 's actions than they could for Gaddafi 's . |
| 20 | The South Metropolitan undertook such maintenance as they could in Sutton depôt . |
| 21 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 22 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 23 | Twoflower hung on as best he could as Ninereeds swooped through a succession of caverns and soared around a spiral staircase that could easily have accommodated a retreating army . |
| 24 | Two days ago , after his daughter had told him her story , he had immediately contacted an enquiry agent whom he knew to be trustworthy and told him to find out all that he could about Dr Neil Cochrane , Sir Alastair Cochrane 's younger brother . |
| 25 | He also felt as secure as he could about Jacqui . |
| 26 | ‘ Reverend Father did all he could for Brother Hopkins . |
| 27 | It appears that William on his deathbed confessed that he had indulged in a fraud in getting his marriage to Adelizia nullified and at the eleventh hour did all that he could for Mabel 's succession as his heir . |
| 28 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 29 | Indeed a modern zoologist would probably find that he could accept almost as much of Wilberforce 's argument as he could of Darwin 's . |
| 30 | He was simply aware that Gabriel 's allegiance had changed , that he spent all the spare time he could with Lucie and the girl , and that he no longer believed he was an angel . |