Example sentences of "i i could " in BNC.
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1 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
2 | He told me I could be back in a fortnight . ’ |
3 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
4 | ‘ But they told me I could not , ’ he said . |
5 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
6 | Mr Gillis continued writing and when Alec turned to me I could see the strain on his face . |
7 | It towered so far above me I could n't even see the top of it . |
8 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
9 | So my skin began to look better , my guts were giving a great , big heartfelt vote of thanks , but I went on losing weight that it seemed to me I could ill afford to lose . |
10 | They told me I could do it in Italian . |
11 | The organiser had hysterics , telling me I could n't cancel as I was the biggest name on the bill . |
12 | If Brook Street had n't convinced me I could do it , my confidence was so low I think I might have turned it down , ’ she says . |
13 | ‘ I am dumbfounded that Ferguson tells me I could n't have spoken to Edwards , but the person I feel really sorry for is Gary Bull . |
14 | ‘ But Steve Coppell told me I could n't have him until he found a replacement . |
15 | Told me I could burn the rest for all she cared . |
16 | " He kept telling me I could n't get pregnant the first time , but I did . " |
17 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
18 | Behind me I could hear the men calling again , " Hey , mister . |
19 | In front of me I could see the dark shape of a summer-house and I moved towards it . |
20 | ‘ You told me I could n't stay in the woods , ’ said the boy calmly . |
21 | This told me I could have a flight to America , if I was quick , a copy of Flight Stimulator too ! |
22 | And er he told me I could start and if I could relieved from the other pit , so I went and saw the under-manager at , and I says , Aye , he says , you can go . |
23 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
24 | If the man had struck me I could n't have felt worse . |
25 | Do n't tell me I could n't ; I 'm stronger than you know ! " |
26 | From where I was standing , far below me I could see a separate miniature fort linked to the mother fortress by an umbilical causeway . |
27 | Knowing the effect this had on me I could never conceal myself from a child of mine . |
28 | I did n't blame her , I told you I did n't , but when she told me I could 've killed her … |
29 | Once the idea took hold of me I could n't rid myself of it . ’ |
30 | He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost . |