Example sentences of "[conj] could [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is the one thing that could make my plans go wrong . ’ |
| 2 | It became clear that my enemy in all this business , the thing that could promote my own humiliation , was the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 4 | Later on I produced a medical certificate , given me by the doctor , stating that my father was ill and that Saturdays and Sundays were the only days of the week I was at home and could help my mother look after him . |
| 5 | I had just woken and could hear my pulse . |
| 6 | I was kept in a chemicals factory for a few weeks , but could maintain my running on a makeshift path around the camp . |