Example sentences of "wherever [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always been prepared to help wherever I could . |
| 2 | Crossing over to the tree , she began to climb up , drawing herself up from branch to branch wherever she could find foothold or handhold . |
| 3 | It was bad enough having to sleep in the steerage — lying on the floor wherever she could find a place , where cockroaches and rats could run over her while she slept . |
| 4 | Josie made her go through everything that she could remember , prompting wherever she could . |
| 5 | Just clip it up wherever she could . |
| 6 | ‘ It could be argued , ’ commented MP Andrew Hunter , ‘ that wherever there could be uncertainty , you are hiding behind it . ’ |
| 7 | Clumps of sturdy weed grew wherever they could take a firm hold . |
| 8 | ( Both sides bought weapons wherever they could get them , from the furthest provenance and under the strangest flags . ) |
| 9 | They had to take the initiative , but they were encouraged to seek technical guidance wherever they could get it . |
| 10 | The Romans used spas and bathed in warm spring waters wherever they could find them . |
| 11 | Grey concrete buildings that had been thrown up , always wherever they could be fitted in , on either side . |
| 12 | The scapegoat and the remaining members of the group had no fixed seat and sat wherever they could . |
| 13 | Moreover , it was the low-lying areas that were vacant when the industrialists appeared on the scene , for earlier generations had wisely avoided building on them wherever they could . |
| 14 | The smaller peoples of Siberian living as they did in more or less dispersed clan communities or nomadic bands , also resisted the Russian conquerors wherever they could . |
| 15 | If they did not own property , they rented rooms wherever they could find them . |
| 16 | And are these , all these peop people you 're telling me about they would just walk around and sleep wherever they could ? |
| 17 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 18 | People had no option but to sit on desks or wherever they could find behind the counter . |
| 19 | Early collectors had in many cases got decretals wherever they could find them . |
| 20 | He joined the Kennedy Administration direct from the board of the Ford Motor Company and began sweeping away waste wherever he could find it . |
| 21 | Educated by the Jesuits , he was a fanatical bigot , determined to crush heresy wherever he could . |
| 22 | Charles swept the land twice with his armies , burning and killing wherever he could find victims , but the Saxons held out in the impenetrable forests and marshes , closing in behind the Frankish military movements . |
| 23 | Modigliani found work wherever he could . |
| 24 | As it was a warm day with a bright sun overhead he walked in the shade wherever he could . |
| 25 | Those moves themselves were very probably not unrelated to the family 's general social mobility — the two would co-exist , especially for an entrepreneur like Benjamin , who would seek to better himself whenever and wherever he could . |
| 26 | Falkenhayn was obliged to gather German reinforcements from wherever he could : three divisions from the north of the front , more from reserves , and four from the Western Front , where they were sorely needed . |
| 27 | He worked on farms to pay for food and hitched a ride wherever he could . |
| 28 | It cancelled the advertisement wherever it could but was too late to prevent it from appearing in some national newspapers . |
| 29 | Truman and most those advising him had come to believe that the Soviet Union was aiming to spread the Communist system whenever and wherever it could : to Poland , Bulgaria , Rumania , Hungary . |
| 30 | True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained . |