Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when I 'd proved I could do that really well , horrible and moronic as it was , I let myself off and got a better job nearer my heart 's desire . " |
| 2 | ‘ Two months before the bullying started an appraisal seemed to say I could walk on water . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if I 'd lost I could have gone home quicky . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I nivver said I could read Indian signs , but them 's some make of jeep thing . |
| 5 | ‘ I like to think I could do a good job at a higher level , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 7 | I must say I 'd have thought I could rely on you to calm people down . |
| 8 | Ca n't wait to get this bedroom sorted out Do think I could have my desk ? |
| 9 | I do wish I could find more energy to get on with it . |
| 10 | ‘ Look , I know this is the most awful cheek , but you did say I could ring you . |
| 11 | I 've said I could do with a fag |
| 12 | We got we 've got I could have twenty five sales execs sitting er in the Newca Tyne and Wear area put it that way on on across those products and they would n't even bump into each other . |
| 13 | I had thought I could have complete trust in you to get your charge safely home . |
| 14 | If I had wanted I could have shouted there , too , but the noise would have got kind of muffled . |
| 15 | When I had finished I could see that it had made not the slightest impression . |
| 16 | The door of the pillbox opened and Cawthorne stepped out , so close to me that if the wind had changed I could have sniffed his after-shave . |
| 17 | I have proved this to some extent by night netting , when I have found I could get a double catch off the same ground by netting both before and after midnight in the same night . |
| 18 | I wanted to prove I could do it . |