Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I could never become well-educated just by attending old Mrs Wopsle 's evening school , so I asked Mr Wopsle 's cousin Biddy to teach me everything she knew . |
| 2 | Haughtily I will now declare that even if asked I could not endorse anything in which I did not believe . |
| 3 | I wanted to touch her and make her better but I realised I could n't do that . |
| 4 | 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 — ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Even while I was speaking I realised I could well turn the tables with that . |
| 6 | Anyway , I realised I could never find that awful wool in that dreadful dirty mustard colour . |
| 7 | If all else failed I could usually rely on Massimo getting an ego-boosting tip from Helga , who was n't allowed to take part herself . |
| 8 | But I found I could just sit down and play by ear . |
| 9 | I found I could n't do the tarot readings anymore . |
| 10 | ‘ No , nor I , and although I might have wanted , so very many times , over the past few years , to walk away , shed my responsibilities , let them all get the hell on with it , perhaps I 'm a marginally better person than I had thought , because I found I could n't do it . |
| 11 | I mean I keep on saying if I found I could n't do the maths I 'd ditched |
| 12 | I prodded with my pole , but somehow the current made it cling , and I found I could n't shake Casey away . |
| 13 | Anyway the workload gradually increased until I found I could n't continue any longer and have been off work for the last six months . |
| 14 | I could n't tell how exactly , except that I found I could n't teach you so well . |
| 15 | ‘ I wondered what exactly was going on when I found I could n't get into my own garage because of a great red car parked in the way . ’ |
| 16 | And when I did I found I could n't concentrate on my work at all . |
| 17 | sitting on the bed in my old room last night , I found I could n't work out how I felt about Hilda dying . |
| 18 | I started relationships with women my own age , but found I could n't take to them because I could n't forget the woman I had married . |
| 19 | I was about to add his son had been an excellent patient , and found I could not do it . |
| 20 | ‘ I found I could not afford it so I pulled out , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I then bought some designers ' gouache ( colourfast ) and found I could still paint wet into wet without the whole thing going into a swim as in a watercolour painting . |
| 22 | Whenever Mackie was n't actively helping Tremayne she stayed close also to Fiona , and although I tried I could n't dislodge the underlying anxiety in their eyes . |
| 23 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |
| 24 | ‘ No matter how hard I tried I could never reach your standards . |
| 25 | She found she could just catch a direct Finnair flight if she hurried . |
| 26 | She , and could , found she could not fly and laid there looking at the sky . |
| 27 | She found she could not look up at him . |
| 28 | Tightening her lips as though afraid they might widen against her will , she then found she could n't bear the ensuing silence . |
| 29 | Caroline found she could n't speak . |
| 30 | While making herself a light meal , though , she found she could n't stop dreaming about him . |