Example sentences of "and [pron] could [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sitting on a chair near the door , and I could just hear Greta Ross 's voice speaking on the phone . |
| 2 | Then school started and I could n't wear pyamas to school so I wore my trousers and tops … when they saw them they ( the other wives ) said ‘ Oh ! that wo n't do ! |
| 3 | He said something and I could n't make sense of it |
| 4 | And I could n't stand physics , I just sort of |
| 5 | I had to have a cast on it and I could n't play guitar at all in any fashion . |
| 6 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 7 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 8 | I ca n't imagine any Strat-lover objecting to the sound of the SRV ; it basically sounds very Hendrix indeed — and I could n't imagine Stevie Ray making a fuss about that … |
| 9 | Then I wished I had asked him to walk with me to the coach , and I could not stop crying . |
| 10 | But ‘ might-have-been ’ is the most poignant and fruitless of all sentiments , and I could not denigrate Leslie 's individualistic choice of combat , nor dismiss as quixotry his response to vision in the conduct of the war . |
| 11 | Joseph enjoyed being able to scold his wicked employer , with warnings from the Bible , and I could not leave Miss Catherine . |
| 12 | It was the first time that someone close to me had died , and I could not imagine life without my sister , even if I had never loved her , or even thought about her recently . |
| 13 | ‘ Two nights ago my telephone rang , but very softly , and I could only hear whispers . |
| 14 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got a tiny head and I could never find hats to fit . |
| 16 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |
| 17 | While on sick leave , you must not work for another employer and should not engage in activities which your illness would normally prevent and which could therefore raise doubts about the nature of your illness . |
| 18 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 19 | Cabs carrying Sherlock Holmes did better than that , and you could n't grow roses using Armstrong 's exhaust . |
| 20 | Oh it was after the First World War because everything was rationed and you could n't buy onions but er I 'd say it was about seventy years ago |
| 21 | Er the water was coming in and you could n't put mats on the floor . |
| 22 | Cos I had a load of music on and you could still hear voice . |
| 23 | And you could almost imagine Boaz hoping against hope that the other kinsman would turn down the offer and so he delighted when that happened . |
| 24 | In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods . |
| 25 | Their commitment to each other was made , after all , and she could n't expect Rohan to jettison every other aspect of his life in her favour . |
| 26 | Naylor thought Travis was her lover , and she could n't tell Naylor that he was n't — not without bringing in Rosemary across the corridor . |
| 27 | Stupid she might be to try to protect her sister , but old habits clung and she could n't abandon Dana to Roman 's anger . |
| 28 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 29 | And she could n't get David 's kisses and caresses out of her mind . |
| 30 | It was nothing to do with her and she could not understand Sara 's love of the old house . |