Example sentences of "[conj] i could [vb infin] [pron] on " in BNC.

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1 I could help these lunatics or I could fight them on behalf of Stok ; neither of those ideas appealed to me .
2 The brochure also would have outlined a number of other aspects in in more detail than I could give you on the phone .
3 ‘ My office sought to arrange an interview with the Secretary of State for Employment so I could brief her on the situation .
4 As the time grew nearer , Shanti began to call me Molly , and I could hear her on the telephone telling her friends , ‘ I 'm going to meet my mother . ’
5 It would be more convenient for me if I could collect them on Friday 10 May in the afternoon , say at 3.30 p.m. or later rather than at 11.30 a.m .
6 Oh that 's erm ah yes , I should try to use the calculator if I could find it on the machine !
7 no , but I could get it on the Tuesday , she said if you had n't got it by the Tuesday , to let us know on the Wednesday
8 When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find
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