Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rev Jim Caterer , vicar of Standish , said : ‘ I never say something is impossible but in this case I wish I could say just that . |
| 2 | Well I saw this present I thought I could find it sort of erm well I suppose I would off everywhere . |
| 3 | What if you , if you lent us some dosh I suppose I could be with Louise tonight , right , I could go home with a big bunch of flowers cos I 'll have a guilty expression on my face . |
| 4 | They bring me dogs bones for the dogs and they like talking to my parrot I wish I could get rid of the bleeding thing though . |
| 5 | Had there been sufficient daylight I believe I could , that evening , have turned the tables on the tigress , for the conditions , after she left the shelter of the rocks , were all in my favour . |
| 6 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |
| 7 | No , we 've got them sort of standing up on , on the top of our book shelf I suppose I could make a few lanterns for in here for Christmas . |
| 8 | I never saw him again but to this day I wish I could take him to Ibrox and watch the Rangers with him and maybe buy him a half and half pint at one of the Govan pubs . |
| 9 | Our Irish priest was not a person I felt I could unburden myself to . |
| 10 | ‘ By the second race I believed I could win a GP . |
| 11 | I do n't realise what I look like sometimes until I was exercising , looking in the mirror , god I wish I could remove me chest like , you know , I 'd love to have a , a small chest like |
| 12 | By a miracle I found I could do it : standing upright on the pedals and pedalling with all my might I reached the road , where Nora was waiting for me . |
| 13 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 14 | Of course , if I had obeyed the rule strictly , I would n't have had any problems , but because I did n't want to knit the next row I thought I could move both cams . |
| 15 | Anyway , by the time I joined Valiant as Phil 's right hand man I felt I could cope with most situations . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |
| 17 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 18 | In the end I found I could n't even live in it . ’ |
| 19 | In the end I found I could n't . |
| 20 | No it 's alright there might be a way I mean I could be wrong , I could be wrong |
| 21 | No it 's alright there might be a way I mean I could be wrong , I could be wrong . |
| 22 | ‘ I asked for it , ’ Flavia said , ‘ the teasing and all , after the way I pretended I could get you a taxi . ’ |
| 23 | This time I knew I could n't fail . |
| 24 | But this time I knew I could use it , even if I could n't think exactly how . |
| 25 | And last time I went I could n't stand it . |
| 26 | I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’ |
| 27 | and all the time I feel I could be |
| 28 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |