Example sentences of "think i could have " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I was very active and do n't think I could have done any more . ’ |
2 | I would have written far sooner , only — to be quite frank — I feared a snub , and I do n't think I could have borne it … |
3 | ‘ I do n't think I could have done that on my own , ’ Laura confessed . |
4 | Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked . |
5 | I enjoyed my life with them and I do n't think I could have coped in the beginning without them . |
6 | ‘ Now do you think I could have a bed somewhere ? ’ |
7 | Mr Garner joined TI in 1979 , after a brief but colourful climb up the industrial ladder and having discounted the idea of becoming a professional trumpeter — ‘ I do n't think I could have stood the strain ’ . |
8 | Do you think I could have some more coffee ? ’ |
9 | I do , I like , do you think I could have a copy of anything you 've got to date because lying in my desk this morning is something I have to prepare a briefing note for my chairman and I was thinking about that recent one , but I could n't put my hand on it Robert , absolutely updated on exactly where we are . |
10 | ‘ Christ , man , I did n't think any of you guys should have been out there , but I do n't think I could have done what you did , in the Falklands . |
11 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |
12 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
13 | ‘ Do you think I could have a cup of tea , please ? ’ |
14 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
15 | ‘ I do n't think I could have stood any more of that this morning . ’ |
16 | I do n't think I could have stood it crying for hours on end . |
17 | I , I think er erm when I first started down there , it was a job , I thought well this is a good job fifteen bob a week , that 's , that 's a lot more than some of the other boys who 'd left school got , they were twelve and six you see and erm , I think erm I came back out of the forces and took over more responsible jobs , I do n't think I could have gone to anything else but transport . |
18 | I rang his agent and said : ‘ Do you think I could have his number so that I could persuade him ? ’ |
19 | Do you think I could have been as I was with you if I was already heavily involved with someone else ? ’ |
20 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
21 | I do n't think I could have done that if I had still been drinking or doing the things I was doing about ten years ago . |
22 | ‘ I do n't think I could have married anyone who does n't like animals , ’ she admits . |
23 | Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race . |
24 | Mum , do you think I could have a pen ? |
25 | Do you think I could have a go |
26 | Ca n't wait to get this bedroom sorted out Do think I could have my desk ? |
27 | I think because I was so inexperienced in the sixties , er I do n't think I could have coped with doing two things . |
28 | Well one of the things that I think has been very striking about John Major , and unfortunately again I 'm comparing him with Mrs. Thatcher , but it 's very difficult not to , thank goodness she was n't around during the Gulf war — that 's my feeling — because I do n't think I could have borne the idea of erm any more rejoice and up an atom and things like that . |