Example sentences of "what [pron] could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I could with is a holiday from this perpetual holiday of a life . |
| 2 | Instead I would go to Amantani in Lake Titicaca , reputedly a quiet , touristless island , to try to reconstruct what I could of my journal and other writings . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I was glad to do what I could for my friend , the only survivor of the Praça days . |
| 5 | I literally had to plunge into the abyss and find out what I could about what they were doing to me , or what they wanted me to do . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had never seen it other than murky before along that particular section so I decided to walk the far bank and see what I could in the swims where I had been very successful . |
| 8 | The old man had sunk to his knees , so , ignoring the Blackshirt on the pavement , I tried to rescue what I could from my medicine case and give him some first aid . |
| 9 | ‘ I just did what I could around the place , milking the cows and making sure everything had enough to eat . |
| 10 | She had taken the trouble first to find out what she could about the topic from the notes given , and had thought about it carefully , so that in a real sense she was herself involved in what was happening in the classroom . |
| 11 | And for a loving mother the child would have Katelina , who would cherish him now , and make what she could of her marriage , for the sake of what she had found in Kalopetra . |
| 12 | Then she examined what she could of her singed hair , licked her cut lip better and tried to smooth her broken nails . |
| 13 | It dawned on Folly that she was waiting for a tip and , gathering what she could of her wits , she struggled out of bed to delve in her handbag . |
| 14 | " I see him constantly , " said Sara and left Jenny to make what she could of that . |
| 15 | Though that was easier said than done she would do her best , and try instead to enjoy what she could of the coming seven days , and treat each day as a holiday and as if she had n't a care in the world . |
| 16 | She did what she could with her tousled mass of auburn curls , but when she twisted it into its usual topknot the starkness of the style served only to emphasise the weariness in her wide-set eyes , and with a little mutter of disgust she let the curls fall again , tumbling about her shoulders in riotous abandon . |
| 17 | He had so manipulated the situation that if she wanted to do what she could for the twins she had no alternative but to agree to his terms . |
| 18 | Winnie Bailey , the soul of tact , frequently visited , did what she could in an unobtrusive way , but knew she was fighting a losing battle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Imagine then , how you would feel if your income had shrunk each year to the point where you could now buy little more than half what you could in 1970 . |
| 21 | You agreed that we could try for the purposes of this program to find out what we could about your criminal record and also about your health records . |
| 22 | We 'd got word of these outlaws passing through the woods , though they never came near the villages , and then this master-carpenter and his fellow came back to us and told us what had befallen them , and we did what we could for them to set them on their way back to Shrewsbury . |
| 23 | And one did what one could with the conditions on the sordid steamer . |
| 24 | Nor is there any need to risk being challenged by alternative social visions , to attend to the views of ‘ every crackpot messiah round the world ’ , since ‘ it matters very little what strange thoughts occur to people in Albania or Burkina Faso , for we are interested in what one could in some sense call the common ideological heritage of mankind ’ . |
| 25 | Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians . |
| 26 | He ran to help and found that , instead of repairing it , men were thrusting what they could into carts , still under its netting . |
| 27 | Within the material constraints of the situation they did what they could for the kids . |
| 28 | Heritage 's depositors just took what they could of their own money and ran . |
| 29 | Slowly , life returned to something like normal in the Straits , and the bewildered survivors were able to bury their dead , and salvage what they could of homes in towns and villages that had been swept by tsunamis and showered with ash . |
| 30 | So they drank it , and ate what they could of the unprepossessing fare , conscious of the hostile gaze of the stuffed fish in the corner . |