Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [vb mod] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you were a child , did you have someone who used to tell you stories ? ’ |
| 2 | I said nothing you can to change it because of the way the system works . |
| 3 | I did everything I could to avoid them . |
| 4 | I read to him , and talked to him , and did everything I could to make him comfortable . |
| 5 | Darling , I did everything I could to make it pleasurable , not painful … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was doing everything I could to keep him because of the jobs in the area . ’ |
| 7 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm very keen to get success at the club , and I want to do everything I can to bring it about . |
| 9 | ‘ Cheryl , there 's something I ought to tell you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Hrun , ’ he said quickly , ‘ there 's something I ought to tell you . |
| 11 | David — there 's something I ought to tell you . |
| 12 | If time off is needed for counselling or treatment , you should do everything you can to grant it . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've done everything you could to find her . |
| 14 | When a message came from a friend in Prague that their mother had disappeared , Miss Harder did everything she could to console them and they became very close . |
| 15 | ‘ But it is infinitely the best show in town at a time when legislation threatens press freedom and we shall do everything we can to support it through the arguments ahead . ’ |
| 16 | Well , we 're doing everything we can to bring it home to them . |
| 17 | ‘ It shows the hypocrisy of our society that we work hard for the born handicapped … yet before their birth we are doing everything we can to seek them out and kill them . |
| 18 | Not only do we not talk about death , but we do everything we can to hide it from view and pretend that mortality is just a myth . |
| 19 | We will do everything we can to help him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We are trying everything we can to help her . ’ |
| 21 | We did everything we could to encourage her to be pleased with being brown . |
| 22 | Mhm , it was just a wee bit quite a big one we used to call it |
| 23 | In the 3 years before she died , her family did everything they could to support her , but it was a struggle . |
| 24 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 25 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |
| 26 | Now I reckon they are doing everything they can to keep me there as long as possible , because when I go they know they 've got a real master-blaster like Chris coming in . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't see why men as well as women should n't do everything they can to fight it off . |
| 28 | He wanted his son to be a champion , and he did everything he could to force him to go on racing against his better judgement ! ’ |
| 29 | His father walked beside him , behind him , leaned on him , did everything he could to teach him to drill . |
| 30 | He had done everything he could to obtain it . |