Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 2 | I could bring them round to you later . ’ |
| 3 | I thought that way I could bring them together . |
| 4 | " I could bring it up to you , sir . |
| 5 | I 've got a bit on that , if you want I could bring it up now while you 're talking about it , I will . |
| 6 | Millie now turned to Ben , and he shrugged his shoulders , saying , ‘ It 's up to you ; but I could bring you back tomorrow , if you would like that ? ’ |
| 7 | I could picture it clearly , a big number 6 made of all the colours in the tube . |
| 8 | ‘ I could picture you so clearly , hurling yourselves down the motorway . ’ |
| 9 | I wish I could flush them out of my head . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I could whip you straight into jail . ’ |
| 12 | I had to go over there just to see how dockers worked over there , to see if I could improve it here , well I could n't because dockers would n't do what they , they were doing in Holland . |
| 13 | She 'd always run into my arms when I did that so I could lift her up , but she do n't do it this time . |
| 14 | ‘ I could make you very unhappy , ’ he said in a low growl . |
| 15 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |
| 16 | I could throw them out and replace them with Bretons , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 17 | Hang on , hang on Has anyone got some spare money I could pay 'em back ? |
| 18 | And how it fits into your life , I have the feeling that er if I could fix it so that I could do it sort of in the house , by the way , I could , I could do certain things and I could stick to them , and I would see that I 'd do them . |
| 19 | ‘ In fact I could fix you up with something interesting right away . |
| 20 | I wish I could love her as little as I like her . |
| 21 | He is the most remarkable looking creature I have ever seen , and I believe I could love him very much , and I believe that with him I could forget Fergus . |
| 22 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
| 23 | I could send you anywhere you like to study for one . ’ |
| 24 | You 're very perceptive , because there are things playing on my mind , and yes … it would help me so much if I could talk them over with someone . |
| 25 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 26 | ‘ But I could knock you up a couple of poached eggs or a buck rarebit — how would that do ? ’ |
| 27 | I thought I could do yours today , if you like . " |
| 28 | The heavy door of the room was fast shut , but he sank his voice to a mere whisper as he said : ‘ And I could do you right , if you had the wit to listen to me . |
| 29 | if I had er if I could do it again I 'd do something erm really different from that , |
| 30 | ‘ I felt I could do it better with myself . |