Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had often rehearsed the choice phrases which I would use on this very occasion but the sight of the animal restrained me ; if he had come to consult me professionally I could hardly start pitching into him right away . |
| 2 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 3 | When the bus pulled to a halt and I got off I was relieved because I had finished school and I had the weekend ahead of me so I could enjoy myself . |
| 4 | So I brought them home with me so I could , I could take in actual fact I could take them back . |
| 5 | If you 'd have let me in I could have washed your back for you . |
| 6 | I just I just I could have spent five afternoons and it was finished . |
| 7 | I well I could tell you the inside story of that but I 'm not going to but I will tell the outside , the public story . |
| 8 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 9 | In order to reassure himself , he might question the stranger about things from my own past , recalling occasions which only I could possibly remember and comparing his answers with those that I would be likely to give . |
| 10 | Not much late I asked Dr Ethelwynn Trewavas her opinion , and she assured me two species were involved , and kindly showed me photos of the teeth of both species , which even I could see were different . |
| 11 | If Ministers were tempted to give undertakings to the Committee , on which unfortunately I could not serve because I was dealing with other orders such as the Scottish seed potato order at the time , what has happened is a bit below the belt . |
| 12 | " When she smiled at me yesterday I could see a resemblance . |
| 13 | Better give me a game gon na thrash you whenever I could of thrashed at whatever ! |
| 14 | I do n't know who else I could have turned to , have told them all of this . ’ |
| 15 | I felt there was something there I could grab hold of , whereas a lot of scripts that were offered to me before were pretty crummy . |
| 16 | Probably I feel there 's always something else I could do and it never seems to stop . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sorry to dump all this on you , Chris , but there was no one else I could turn to . |
| 18 | All these thoughts were racing through my head when I came face to face with you , and when you did n't show me out I could n't entirely understand why . |
| 19 | Do I buy them from existing shareware libraries , or is there somewhere I could obtain a complete set of titles from in one go . |
| 20 | Later still , the analyst suggests that Fraser may want to offer reparation , by writing this book , for the guilt he had felt in relation to his father , and Fraser asks : ‘ For wanting to destroy him so I could have my mother to myself ? ’ |
| 21 | I mean you 've got to keep the Home Fires Burning , Grin and Bear it , make him Feel Welcome — although see when he 's up at midnight frying eggs and he spatters grease all over my good ceramic hob I could brain him so I could — but I just tell myself he 's Not Home Forever and I bite my tongue . |
| 22 | I longed to prove you were unfaithful to him so I could make him throw you over — I felt like a monster with every ungenerous thought that flickered through my mind . |
| 23 | As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground . |
| 24 | I told him how I could freeze my eidetic images , then project my phantom body into them , to discover things that I could not possibly have known . |
| 25 | I was I was so angry and and I see him a out and about and when I first saw him about I could have I could have run him down . |
| 26 | ‘ If he had just left me there I could have died . ’ |
| 27 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 28 | ‘ But would you care to tell me how I could turn it round , since the snow 's narrowed the width of the road to a single track ? |
| 29 | When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |