Example sentences of "[conj] i could [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't care if it was raw , if the pangs of birth were ugly ; I wanted to be somewhere I would n't be defined by what I 'd been , where I could fashion a new notion of myself and impose it on others as the truth . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted him where I could keep an eye on him , ’ said Mr Malik through his hands . |
| 3 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 4 | I was told by the FO in London that I would be met at Johannesburg airport — since British aircraft could not land in Rhodesia while UDI existed — and would be conveyed to the British Consulate there where I could have a rest . |
| 5 | There is no way that I could skive a session , even if I wanted to , wearing my yellow and tartan suit ! |
| 6 | in my view thrown off without any reasonable excuse , because I felt that I could bring a lot of expertise to the health authority . |
| 7 | So when he was in Birmingham he bought me this house , which was going cheap , so that I could start a money-lending business here for him . |
| 8 | Do you seriously expect that I could contemplate an assignation with a man whose wife is lying in a hospital bed ? ’ |
| 9 | Why do you think I brought you down to his place if it was n't so that I could stake a claim on your patience — make you listen to what I have to confess because there was no way you could run away from me — flag down a taxi , catch a bus and head for the airport ? ’ |
| 10 | I was examining the effect in the mirror before putting on the mask , vaguely wishing that I could levitate a little to improve the illusion . |
| 11 | You 're so plausible that I could make a case for you . |
| 12 | Counsel has helpfully suggested that I could make an order not to remove child from place he was presently living until removed , as well as in respect of the other three children . |
| 13 | We were by now seated in the Happy Diner , and I was still rather amazed that I could face a bacon sandwich . |
| 14 | I thought about it for a while and then telephoned him to say that I could suggest a pretty easy solution , and indicated to him what it was . |
| 15 | If I never believed the dead could hear me , and if I knew that the dead could not speak , I was nonetheless certain that I could re-create a conversation with them . |
| 16 | ‘ I was also thinking , ’ he whispered softly into her ear , ‘ that I could find a secluded spot and make love with you right now , if such a thing as a secluded spot existed in this place . ’ |
| 17 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 18 | I thought no more of it , and stared vacantly into space , wishing that the weather would improve so that I could have a better look at the scenery . |
| 19 | I used to gaze at it and wish that I could have a dog just like the one in the picture . |
| 20 | The print , called ‘ Suspense ’ , hung over my parents ' bed and from a very early age I wished that I could have a dog like that — have a look at the picture of my Nip on page 110 . |
| 21 | I loved the fact that I could have a four , five , six piece group that was capable of making this huge wall of sound in addition to what we did as just a jazz quartet . ’ |
| 22 | My first big chance to put money in the bank came in 1986 when Middlesex awarded me a benefit , which was meant to make sure that I could have a start in the world outside cricket once I retired . |
| 23 | In order that I could test a number of hypotheses , I gave all the British ( and a considerable number of other European and North American ) Moonies a 41-page questionnaire , and then I reproduced many of the questions in a 36-page questionnaire that was distributed to non-Moonies who were matched for age and social background with the Unification membership . |
| 24 | I had been counting on his saying no to at least one of those , so that I could issue a hollow guffaw and depart , shaking my head ruefully ; but he did not , and I had no choice but to slink away or sign in . |
| 25 | I did n't particularly enjoy that , but the fact that I could play a reasonable game of golf led to an offer to do a sales job for a golf manufacturer just south of Los Angeles in a place called Tustin . ’ |
| 26 | I was hoping that P & I 's would be having a sale and that I could get a new concordance but she would n't even let me look . |
| 27 | I wished Tod would go and dig out that black chest of his , so that I could get a proper look at this Irene . |
| 28 | I dropped my handkerchief so that I could get a closer look . |
| 29 | Additionally , I stalked the craft carefully , so that I could shoot a position which left the outboard almost hidden behind the boat . |
| 30 | On one occasion I persuaded Vaughan Grayson Mann to show me around her house so that I could write a review of the many oil paintings which had brought her national fame as an artist . |