Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had a stick I could manage all right , really . ’ |
| 2 | Up and up we went and when I could walk no longer he lay me down and covered me with kisses and love bites . |
| 3 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
| 4 | I felt rather miserable , but at least I could walk about now , in a two-metre circle . |
| 5 | I had an idea I could hide out there for a while , maybe rest up , maybe make a connection who could get me out of the City . |
| 6 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , but I could sleep down here , ’ she said instantly . |
| 8 | " You mean I could break down altogether ? " |
| 9 | When I said ‘ English ’ he started on some obscure anecdote in which I could make out little except the name ‘ Margaret ’ and the repetition of ‘ kato , kato ’ , ‘ down , down ’ . |
| 10 | Damned if I could make out quite what 's going on and I 've been trying hard enough . ’ |
| 11 | I knew I could do well academically and I did it as a challenge to the conventional idea of the black kid who 's good at sports , yet with no brains . |
| 12 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 13 | And then , since weeping was something I could do fairly easily , providing I thought hard enough on a sad theme , I should see if a few womanly tears would be a good ploy . |
| 14 | . which I could do very well . ’ |
| 15 | " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics . |
| 16 | I could do so easily enough myself . ’ |
| 17 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 18 | I could continue considerably longer on this fascinating subject , in fact I have several pages of notes here if anybody wishes to come and ask me any questions . |
| 19 | Chair , if I could move on then to the budget proper , and I apologize for the numbering . |
| 20 | ‘ When I was young , I could move as fast as Harald . |
| 21 | After tearing both my ACL and MCL ( medial collateral ligament ) in a skiing accident last season , I decided to take the latter course and found that I could ski relatively safely with the aid of a brace . |
| 22 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 23 | Right now , she thought ; I could leave right now . |
| 24 | If I could leave right now I would ! ’ |
| 25 | I could wake up tomorrow , and I 'd be back where I started , working in the tyre factory trying to save up the money to release a single . ’ |
| 26 | I could sack out right away , with some scotch and a few Serafim . |
| 27 | Red , orange , green — I could stay here forever . |
| 28 | If for any reason I had to spend the night in town and my friend Wilma could n't have me , I could stay there very cheaply with the girls . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I could stay out there until dark , ’ he said after his first round . |
| 30 | I could sense how badly Foo wanted the Eddie . |