Example sentences of "[vb past] what i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I showed what I could do last year , given half a chance . |
| 4 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 5 | The only place I ever heard what I would call politics was at the British Holistic Medical Association which is the rival to the British Medical Association . |
| 6 | ‘ I brought what I could find of Rory 's stuff . ’ |
| 7 | I felt what I can now see to be an unreasonable surge of panic . |
| 8 | Of course , he knew what I would do . |
| 9 | I knew what I should do : I 'd whisper to myself . |
| 10 | I wish I knew what I should do with her . |
| 11 | In my heart , I knew what I must do . |
| 12 | But I knew what I 'd be confronted with at the hospital — my mother speechless and locked in a paralysed body . |
| 13 | I , I says , I 'll let you know sometime today or tomorrow and er anyway , he was expecting me to say at least two or three or four weeks you know er because I 'd put the situation I had no tools , no nothing and erm I er had a look at it and I thought what I could do , and I says I can let you have them in a week . |
| 14 | I thought what I 'd do was I 'd have a bath , I thought I 'd put all the back in the fridge |
| 15 | Quigley gave what I can only describe as an eldritch screech and came at me with both arms , legs and the front bit of his head . |
| 16 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Although I did what I could to try to conceive a girl , I could n't be sure that I had . |
| 19 | I did what I could . ’ |
| 20 | In fact , there was nothing really wrong with her , and I did what I could to soothe her . |
| 21 | I did what I could to offer comfort to the family . |
| 22 | I mean , I , I did what I could in the fifth issue , but you just run out of cash , that 's the trouble , but I mean the sixth issue is good . |
| 23 | I did what I could . |
| 24 | ‘ I did what I could . ’ |
| 25 | I turned up every so often , did what I could , with my limited resources . |
| 26 | ‘ I did what I could ; it 's what anyone would have done . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I just did what I could around the place , milking the cows and making sure everything had enough to eat . |
| 28 | ‘ I did what I could . |
| 29 | ‘ I did what I could . |
| 30 | Finally I did what I should have done before . |