Example sentences of "[conj] i could [vb infin] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the immigration people came I got a letter , and they said that I could stay while they finished their inquiries . |
| 2 | A " feeling of knowing " sometimes accompanies an aspect of the dream which is carried over into wakefulness ( for instance the certainty that I could fly when I had my flying dream ) . |
| 3 | I 'm just hoping that I could learn as I 'm as I 'm earning you know . |
| 4 | I wish the picture could change , and I could stay as I am . |
| 5 | Aunt Branwell could teach them , and I could help when I had time . |
| 6 | ‘ I preferred the days when we were smaller and I could work when I felt like it . |
| 7 | If I could move as I used to I 'd be running around and dancing in the street . ’ |
| 8 | But I could tell because her mouth looked all slippery . |
| 9 | Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask . |
| 10 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 11 | There was still a Mediterranean atmosphere , as I could see as I walked beneath the Spanish arch along the cobbled quayside towards the harbour . |