Example sentences of "[adv] i could [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only I could control my responses , but I seem unable to do anything about them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | And so I could help my mother out of her embarrassment . |
| 5 | And I 'm angry that I 'm not doing anything , ’ so I thought maybe for once I could use my name — my fame — in a constructive way and maybe make it heard above that dreadful silence . |
| 6 | Now I could set my sights on the European Championships in Stuttgart . |
| 7 | Perhaps now I could make my own bread ! |
| 8 | Surely I could forget my surroundings for an hour and a half . |
| 9 | The cops would be watching the bus station and the railroad terminal , but maybe I could bribe my way aboard a tramp steamer for Macao or Shanghai . |
| 10 | Then I could frame my question , but then , of course , I would n't need to . |
| 11 | I 'm only here for the beer in the first place and , the way I see it , if old skull-face came knocking on my door with his scythe at least I could get my laughing gear around some of that celestial scrumpy ! |
| 12 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That 's how I could afford my passage to England and this holiday . |
| 15 | I identified deeply with Hal 's predicament : there were many moments when I could feel my brain going — especially in Hawaii . |
| 16 | I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels . |
| 17 | I was told there was n't one but was invited onto the executive where I could form my own women 's group . |
| 18 | No , you know , if I could work somewhere in an office where I could use my car |
| 19 | And it was also a place where I could get my ship repaired by skilled persons whom I more or less trusted . |