Example sentences of "do [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , by accident , you try to make it do something which could give rise to an error , you accept the fact that command mode . |
| 2 | If I do n't do something it could be worse next time . |
| 3 | ‘ Although his run scoring was not prolific , by his standards , he has done everything we could have asked of him , ’ said former master batsman Geoff Boycott . |
| 4 | The Data Protection Registrar has also commented that the mere fact a breach of security has occurred will not be proof that the data user has been negligent , provided the data user has ‘ done everything which could reasonably be expected ’ ( DPR Guideline 4 ) . |
| 5 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've done everything you could to find her . |
| 7 | He had done everything he could to obtain it . |
| 8 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 9 | Sir Patrick and Foreign Affairs Minister Dick Spring said that they would do everything they could to try to bring about an early renewal of the talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
| 11 | say if you 'd done it I could have took it for you tomorrow or the next day . |
| 12 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 13 | The scene of crime team had done what they could , which was n't much . |
| 14 | Well we only had Epping hospital dear , that 's all we had , there was only Epping and er they were er you know done what they could very good and we had a dentist , oh dentist you had to go er , oh right to Old Harlow , up er |
| 15 | The embalmers had done what they could but , even as they walked up the nave , both Cranston and Athelstan caught the whiff of putrefaction . |
| 16 | She had done what nobody could have expected her to do . |
| 17 | She had done what she could . |
| 18 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 19 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 20 | He had come to his sister Elizabeth 's rescue in her time of trouble , contributing almost beyond the call of duty ; he had already done what he could to help his young nephew Robert — now what of Benjamin ? |
| 21 | Mary 's marriage to Henry had certainly taken place by February 1381 , and Thomas might well have done what he could to prevent her marrying , but Froissart casts Thomas as a villain in his account of English politics in Richard II 's reign , and not every detail in the story should necessarily be accepted at face value . |
| 22 | Joe held out his hand , they shook hands and walked away from each other , Joe feeling that he had done what he could to save Maureen from wrecking her life and suffering years of pain but troubled by sympathy and liking for Chris . |
| 23 | Feeling that he had done what he could , Redpath walked back to the steps . |
| 24 | He would not swear that the Prince of Wales had enjoyed every minute , but at least he , Auguste Didier , had done what he could . |
| 25 | There comes a moment when you know you have done what you could do with something and everything else would be fiddling . |
| 26 | " Well , doctor , you 've done what you could , and you 've helped a lot by coming along . |
| 27 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 28 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 29 | Speaking to BBC radio , Lawrence Eagleburger said the US had done what it could for an agreement on farm subsidies , which had derailed the talks . |
| 30 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |