Example sentences of "and i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | John said it would n't cost much in petrol as Pat McClusky , an excellent comic , was driving a minibus over with eight of John 's other acts and I could go with them . |
| 32 | At the moment I 'm not getting any results , and I could go at any time . |
| 33 | Well respected and they 'd all er have a word me anytime and I could go into any office you know what I mean and er yeah . |
| 34 | and there 's only going to be a couple of people there she knows and she was gon na ring Marie and see if Rob and I could go , you know , really as a , to keep , make up a foursome sort of thing |
| 35 | And then afterwards Isobel and I could go to Sainsbury 's that 's the whole idea . |
| 36 | I could , I could go and I could go and take if there 's , you know , if they have n't , no nothing awful 's to them I could go and take some pics of those . |
| 37 | Well on , on Saturday , I might go , but like , Sunday 's a good day and I 'll I 'll were n't gon na do the market , I were n't do that market , and I could go down on Sunday . |
| 38 | I would n't be able to live with myself for putting him through that , but then he would nicker to me and I could breath a sigh of relief . |
| 39 | ‘ Think about it , dear girl , ’ Spencer said softly , ‘ anything is better than disgrace to the family name , do n't you think , and between us , you and I could rescue the old family firm ? |
| 40 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 41 | It suited me , because the yard kept an eye on Joanna , and I could leave my car there . |
| 42 | And I could leave the car in her driveway . |
| 43 | ‘ He 's your picture , Jake , ’ she used to say over the laddie 's cot , laughing like a witch ; and I could 've killed her for it . ’ |
| 44 | Another punch and I could 've lost the lot . ’ |
| 45 | I 've operated er , various positions on the Celtic fringe , and I could 've replied briefly to my colleague from Wales in |
| 46 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 47 | My number is 4444 , my boss 's 4524 , and I could forward to my boss . |
| 48 | It meant I would n't be perceived as another girl singer — and I could set the look and feel and energy of what I was about . ’ |
| 49 | Any more and I could set up shop ! ’ |
| 50 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 51 | I 'd thank them and I 'd be home in five minutes and I could sit in Peter 's room looking at his stuff and chatting with him . |
| 52 | Now , you and I could sit down , as many people could then , eighty , ninety years ago and write a whole lot of things with the world , but it took the , the Irish writer and whip G K Chesterton to really put his finger on it . |
| 53 | My tone was defensive and I could feel the tenseness returning . |
| 54 | Momentarily staggered , she rose to the challenge , and I could feel her mind racing feverishly . |
| 55 | His face was on my knees and I could feel the wet of his tears coming through my jeans , first on one knee that did n't have a patch on it , then on the other that did . |
| 56 | The wheel suddenly pushed into my left palm and I could feel all the thudding pressure of the sea and the wind concentrated into that one polished spoke . |
| 57 | My lips felt engorged , there was a ringing in my ears , and I could feel the blood pumping around the veins in my head . |
| 58 | His face was drawn and I could feel the tension in his hands holding my wrists . |
| 59 | I pushed my hand into the mouth and I could feel it all right . |
| 60 | and that 's it the head , and I could feel the chill . |