Example sentences of "i could [verb] my [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really do not think I could manage my affairs without her assistance . ’ |
| 2 | Now I could set my sights on the European Championships in Stuttgart . |
| 3 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 4 | ‘ Any idea where I could lay my hands on an idiot 's guide to disputes ? ’ he asked . |
| 5 | In the days when I had more time to spare I would read any book I could lay my hands on and particularly enjoyed anything about foreign lands . |
| 6 | I have often wondered if Levin made a 12-string guitar and if so , where I could lay my hands on one . |
| 7 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 8 | I drank all the booze I could lay my hands on . |
| 9 | I spent the days and nights talking with tenants , trade unionists , blacks and whites , punks and skinheads , single parents and old-age pensioners , their neighbours , workmates and relatives — anybody I could lay my hands on . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I could control my feelings , have an exciting affair with you and keep myself intact . |
| 11 | ‘ If only I could control my responses , but I seem unable to do anything about them . ’ |
| 12 | I had gone , as the doctor had ordered , where I could feast my senses . |
| 13 | Doubtless the authorities would not heed my plea , but here in County Fermanagh I could feast my eyes on red pillar boxes to my heart 's content . |
| 14 | Jeffrey : When I first recognized that I was homosexual , I could recognize my feelings but I did n't know actually what you were supposed to do — not just to meet people , that was difficult enough , but I did n't know what to do physically . |
| 15 | I grabbed the top of the fence and pulled myself up until I could rest my forearms there , keeping myself about a foot off the ground by skidding the toes of my trainers — only cleaned last week as well — into the wet wood . |
| 16 | Although my hand felt sore , I could move my fingers and life by hand above my head . |
| 17 | I thought it was my spine but I could move my limbs so I thought it could n't be too bad . ’ |
| 18 | Although my paralysis was pretty well complete , I did find that I could move my eyes . |
| 19 | In September 1938 , when I was sixteen , I went back to my native country for a holiday ; partly because 1 wanted to see my friends in štanjel , and partly so that I could visit my uncles , aunts and cousins on my mother 's side of the family in Mavhinje . |
| 20 | ‘ What I mean is that I wish I could snap my fingers and suddenly there 'd be a band playing some soft , slow music . ’ |
| 21 | I could tell my grandparents things that I would n't tell my , my father or my mother . |
| 22 | and this is something I could change my hands slightly about and come back and speak to you |
| 23 | To cut a long story short , it was n't until Wednesday that I could fit my shoes for the wedding , which was Thursday ! |
| 24 | ‘ I could sink my claws into his flesh too , ’ she was saying instead , ‘ even thinking of making advances to my family ! ’ |
| 25 | Surely I could forget my surroundings for an hour and a half . |
| 26 | I could wriggle my legs but not use them . |
| 27 | so I can put my trainers in my trainers , oh I could wear my trainers going out could n't I ? |
| 28 | ‘ Butler , ’ he said , once we were in the hall , ‘ I wonder if I could have my feet changed . |
| 29 | but the Principal of the Technical Institute at Lowestoft was quite a character , a Mrs , a Miss G C and I remember it was the day after the erm , the bombing and the building was pretty well devastated and er Miss rung up and said , she 'd got an idea she said erm how about hiring a bus , a double-decker bus , I could have my classes in the bus and erm |
| 30 | I could discuss my plans for my proposed exploration of the Danakil country with him , take him to a meeting of the Raleigh Club or to Elsfield to have tea with John Buchan . |