Example sentences of "what he could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 2 | We hammered on the door for the gaoler and returned to the main gates of the prison where Benjamin left a coin and instructed the sadistic bastard to do what he could for poor Taplow . |
| 3 | A few would talk and from them he learned what he could of the north-west . |
| 4 | The distinguished personage known as the Coroner 's Serjeant ( with a ‘ j ’ ) had been willing to sacrifice what he could of his time if the interests of Justice ( capital ‘ J ’ ) were really being served . |
| 5 | Lucas knew Lord Halifax from his university days and now wrote to tell him that Ramsey was the man whom the diocese wanted as its bishop , and hoped that Halifax would do what he could with Winston Churchill . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Leaving Paddy Mayne to bring up what he could in the way of supplies from Kabrit , Stirling set off from Siwa to Eighth Army Headquarters , which he found in turmoil . |
| 8 | When she came with the tray he would slip downstairs and steal what he could from the open shelves in the pantry . |
| 9 | At the end of the negotiations , as he prepared to run off to salvage what he could from the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Nicaragua , North told the Iranians he had failed in his mission ‘ to start the process of healing between our countries ’ ; the two nations , Iran and America , were about to pass each other like ships in the night . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , he asked Ranulf to learn what he could from his new-found paramour though , privately , he believed nothing would come of that . |
| 11 | Bright enough to draw what he could from his NME days and survive outside , he 's carved a unique niche for himself . |