Example sentences of "else i could " in BNC.

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1 The stewards inquired into the running of Yahoo and accepted Tom Morgan 's explanation that : ‘ He lost his action and did n't feel right and there was nothing else I could do but pull him up . ’
2 I do n't see what else I could have done .
3 In fact , it 's been so effortless that I 'm now wondering what else I could organise .
4 So I turned from what we pros call ‘ the back of the book ’ to the front to see what else I could learn .
5 I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation .
6 I do n't know who else I could have turned to , have told them all of this . ’
7 Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’
8 ‘ I was effectively put in a no-win situation … there was nothing else I could do , ’ he said .
9 Probably I feel there 's always something else I could do and it never seems to stop .
10 ‘ If there was anyone else I could possibly talk to about this I would .
11 And , I just tu but there was nothing else I could do !
12 I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction .
13 I rang Haines to tell him of that fact and there was nothing else I could do as I had no notion of where in the Bahamas Max might be .
14 ‘ I 'm sorry to dump all this on you , Chris , but there was no one else I could turn to .
15 There was really nothing else I could do .
16 I could n't have been happier : there was nothing else I could wish for .
17 ‘ There was nothing else I could do … ’
18 ‘ Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf ? ’
19 When you asked about the phone call I tried to remember everything and I do n't know what else I could have told you .
20 And I went , I know everybody had a piece of this chocolate on their plates , but there was nothing else I could do , once they saw it that was it .
21 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
22 No , there ai n't nothing else I could do .
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