Example sentences of "i could do [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately I could do nothing at all . |
| 2 | With me it was all too simple and evident , my behaviour — and I was a most law-abiding child — caused my parents pain , and as I could do nothing about it , certainly nothing to improve it , except to cease to exist , I grew more and more guilty . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I could do them on the train to the City some morning every week . ’ |
| 4 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 5 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I wish I could do something for them , ’ she said , and the concern in her voice was now innocent of duplicity . |
| 7 | I could do something with that hair . ’ |
| 8 | Mrs Ross , Mrs Girdlestone added , had only her pension to live on , and she repeated that she would be glad if I could do something about her as soon as possible . |
| 9 | I felt wonderful , and it was at that moment that I realised that if I started taking my athletics seriously , if I started training properly , if I started listening to Ron , then maybe I could do something in the sport . |
| 10 | I popped in on yer to see if I could do anything for yer , like did yer want a medical bandage that I could get cheap . |
| 11 | After twelve years in management , I have n't yet had a tape arrive which I thought I could do anything with . |
| 12 | My time was my own ; I could do anything in the world I liked . |
| 13 | I 'd probably pull him out if I could do it without too much danger to myself . ’ |
| 14 | We were on honeymoon , I could do it without loving or being loved , but not here … not in Hong Kong … |
| 15 | But then again , I suppose I could do it without the though . |
| 16 | I don ‘ t think that I could do it with anyone whose bones stuck out . |
| 17 | Chris says I could do it with my eyes shut , but he 's biased . ’ |
| 18 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 19 | I could do it on each of these . |
| 20 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 21 | ‘ I could do it for thirteen . |
| 22 | I think we could all do what Andrew 's suggesting quite easily er I could do it for Geography , erm , I just think it 's making a lot of extra work . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't do it ! ’ she had to tell her , and , when her sister 's look suddenly became hostile , ‘ I 'm sure if you wrote to Mr Gajdusek , or phoned him — or I could do it for you , ’ she volunteered hastily , not wanting to be bad friends with her , now of all times . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought I could do it as an outsider , as an Englishman coming in , ’ Schlesinger claimed . |
| 25 | I see I could do it by degrees ; it only blistered my hand in two places . |
| 26 | Now I know I could do it by getting a little deeper into things but can anyone think of a pure MS-DOS way of doing it ? |
| 27 | They told me I could do it in Italian . |
| 28 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
| 29 | Erm I I reckon I reckon I could do it in an hour . |
| 30 | The others you might not have argued but , you know , you might say my experience is that it , I could do it in eighty percent of that time . |