Example sentences of "and i could [adv] [vb infin] [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 | ‘ Two nights ago my telephone rang , but very softly , and I could only hear whispers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got a tiny head and I could never find hats to fit . |
| 5 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |