Example sentences of "[noun sg] i could [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exercise book was , along with my diary , the only thing I could call my own . |
| 2 | On the one hand I could send us both to prison , shame my mother , beggar my brothers , scandalize the city and blacken the Miletti name for evermore . |
| 3 | Alone in Paris , in a foreign city on the brink of winter , penniless , hungry , with not an item I could call my own except the clothes I stood up in . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I hurt you but it was the only way I could do 'im some damage . ’ |
| 5 | And when I 've done a a spot on photograph for them , when somebody else is mentioning a photograph , you know , er to go up in the Town Hall or whatever , er they the local mayor has just had one done by one of the guys in the workshop , and I know for a fact I could do one that 's ten times better than that . |
| 6 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |