Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that we had to find somewhere I could manage on my own and that was centrally located , because I could not walk far . |
| 2 | Fully dressed , midnight butterfly in this light of day , we hold each other , grind , baby , grind so I could take a chunk out of your neck by way of breakfast . |
| 3 | Just so much easier to get just to know that if ever like you know , eight or nine o'clock one night for whatever reason I wanted to come home I could be there like myself , in an hour . |
| 4 | but thing is there 's a lot lot of like Lee 's friends and that and they say well I could n't work in a shoe shop and I would n't work in a , and I say why ? |
| 5 | When I got downstairs I could see the drawing-room light was on so I thought they must still be up , I 'll go and see if they want a snack . |
| 6 | Had he not done so I could not have gone to Eton , and should have been deprived of one of the most formative influences in my life . |
| 7 | De Villiers grinned disarmingly. ‘ 'T WOULD not be so bad if I could get some work done so I could visit her now and then , but there 's little chance of that with the Bishop running to the Queen every five minutes . ’ |
| 8 | He said I had probably done all I could ( little did he know ) , but that no one was omnipotent and I should not try to be for Jean-Claude what Maman had been — and still was , to some extent . |
| 9 | As he came nearer I could see that he was wearing a velveteen suit which was full of holes and splattered with wet clay . |
| 10 | Yeah I mean like when I was in the park I only did it between because I was only really talking to one person at one time , but I mean like I could n't remember anywhere . |
| 11 | When we got home I could see that they were ready to agree to the move . |
| 12 | Well to be honest Ja I ca n't see that far normally from where I live I can see the White Horse bank but it 's shrouded in mist at the moment erm no I ca n't see so I could n't tell you whether there there is snow up there or not . |
| 13 | Although I had a mouthful of sour grapes I thought it was worth going so I could corner Polymers football club chairman , Stan Bates . |
| 14 | With my head turned sideways I could see out of the window and through the house to Willesden Sports Centre where a Sunday league football team was working out . |
| 15 | I quite like somewhere I could get uhum a cover for the bed to match . |
| 16 | You know yesterday I was I was listening over it you know so I could write the people who I 'd spoken to yeah . |
| 17 | I finally said the only thing I damn well wanted was for them to leave so I could get to the hospital . |
| 18 | And , you know only I could n't live without that ! |
| 19 | . It 's not raining now I could have put everything out . |
| 20 | ‘ You know sometimes I wish it would make one that worked so I could fly away from here altogether . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror . |
| 22 | In fact if I 'd known I was coming here I could have brought you some in , let you seen what we used to do . |
| 23 | I feel sometimes I could go back . |
| 24 | If I 'd have known earlier I could have done it . |
| 25 | Tt erm I did wonder if this might happen actually I could n't remember whether they wanted a photograph or not . |
| 26 | Do n't forget So I could actually start and do the ba , bacon actually could n't I ? |
| 27 | I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket . |
| 28 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 29 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 30 | I was some way behind , it was misty , and when I got there I could n't see him . |