Example sentences of "[conj] i could [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier , and the book had suddenly reached the stage — the wonderful moment to get to — where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created , and listen to people talking and watch them moving , all apparently independent of me . |
| 2 | So it was easy , I was bathing in a calm sea where I could swim freely ; you ca n't swim freely when you get tangled up in roots . |
| 3 | I rang John see if he could go same time or I could go there |
| 4 | I just wish that I could give more . |
| 5 | No so there was n't anything that I could record then and the woman 's coming tonight , to pick them up |
| 6 | I wished he would go away so that I could go upstairs and look at all my clothes . |
| 7 | Until then I had always thought that I could go home , but now I was n't sure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I know that if I wanted to come back here this is the time that I could do so . |
| 10 | He thinks that I could do better than just a clerical job . |
| 11 | I always feel that I could do better ’ |
| 12 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 13 | At one time my major ambition was to have my father buy me an excavator so that I could make really big dams . |
| 14 | I dressed in black to reduce the chance of being seen and could n't believe my luck when I found that the house opposite his was unoccupied , with big bushes in the front garden that I could hide behind . |
| 15 | I wished that I could talk well , and could continue this conversation until animosity was dissipated and we could all stand on some common ground , but I knew enough to admit that this would n't happen , and that the longer the talk went on the further apart we should all grow . |
| 16 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 17 | Even before the film had wound on , he 'd looked down and away , so that I could see only his forehead and his grey hair ; and within two seconds , he 'd walked towards the grandstand and out of my line of vision . |
| 18 | In a moment of optimism my wife told me not to worry and pronounced that I could live perfectly well on one lung . |
| 19 | The next decision was to find an instrument that I could learn quickly . |
| 20 | But I was considered ‘ sharp ’ and they also discovered that I could run quite fast . |
| 21 | So , it 's perhaps an area that I could instigate there . |
| 22 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 23 | The female , Vicky , came to me and bent down so that I could look again into her grey eyes . |
| 24 | I used to even give up my lunch hours so that I could come home and take the dog out ! |
| 25 | I knew that I could wait forever , |
| 26 | I 've wished then that I could say honestly , ‘ But I did have a child of my own , a little boy by the only man I have truly loved . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 28 | I hated Gionesca because he complained all the time , and I knew that I could get away with hating him because I was stronger and fitter than him . |
| 29 | I ran along the stony path to Sam 's large shed in my socks and hardly felt the discomfort , and found to my relief that I could get inside easily enough — no lock on the door . |
| 30 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |