Example sentences of "[noun] i could [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was more , I was 21 years old now and I had discovered just how much freedom I could have away from home ! |
| 2 | If I had a stick I could manage all right , really . ’ |
| 3 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 4 | The only function I could perform now was to take the body back to Skeldale House for disposal . |
| 5 | And in his yellow eyes I could see only hate and evil . |
| 6 | On the plain I could see long , black , sinuous lines of wildebeest , hundreds of thousands of them , constantly on the move . |
| 7 | After a while I could see dimly by the light filtering through the sacking hung over the two narrow slits which are the Bunker 's only windows . |
| 8 | ‘ I have calculated that selling the girdles at normal price — and in Leningrad this day I could get double the normal price at least — but at normal price I could still retire at the end of one day 's work . |
| 9 | Actually I was thinking of some really good , funny things I could say earlier |
| 10 | Without my glasses I could see very little , certainly insufficient to tell the difference between a good kidney and a bad one . |
| 11 | I knew almost no one , and because of the language barrier I could speak freely with few people . |
| 12 | If I had used mail order for the larger items I could have easily shaved off a further 10% of these costs and come well within my allotted amount . |
| 13 | Through the crack under the door I could smell Shelly loud and clear . |
| 14 | The only thing I could do well was cook . |
| 15 | Aunt Kit said that the best thing I could do initially was to train as a teacher . |
| 16 | ‘ I went on a submarine trip when I was 16 , and it was the greatest thing I could imagine then to serve my country in a submarine . |
| 17 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 18 | There was no way I could know just what passed between Mme G and her son when they were together and alone . |
| 19 | From my vantage-point I could see exactly where the accident had happened , about sixty yards from the summit , as the cops had left a portable barrier with yellow flashing lights on top to mark the spot . |
| 20 | For a time I could communicate only by raising my eyebrows when someone pointed to letters on a card . |
| 21 | Every time I could get away I used to drive down to New York , where I 'm originally from , and go to the Paradise Garage . ’ |
| 22 | He 's the only other guy I could trust here . ’ |