Example sentences of "could [verb] [prep] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if any Golf Monthly readers could explain to me why golf manufacturers and club professionals are under the illusion that left-handed people do not want to play golf ; or , if they do , then they are able and willing to use right-handed clubs . |
| 2 | If the hon. Gentleman is so concerned about law and order , perhaps he could explain to me why his party refuses to support the Prevention of Terrorism ( Temporary Provisions ) Act , which was introduced initially by a Labour Government and is now opposed by a Labour Opposition . |
| 3 | So erm , I think when she said she did n't know , er , she was telling the truth , and when asked her if she could explain to me , the very point that just asked me , again she said she , she could n't explain , she had , she she 'd agreed , agreed it was a paradox , that she did n't really know erm , why the book had never been published , or until nineteen sixty seven erm note , note that it , that it had been taken . |
| 4 | ‘ I would you could remain with me for ever ! ’ |
| 5 | I was confident of their work and confident of my own ability to cope with anything that this little aircraft could throw at me . |
| 6 | She kind of wore it with everything she could think of I think that would go . |
| 7 | He said he hoped that if he had to do it he could count on me . |
| 8 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 9 | Durance appealed to Rain : ‘ Can you believe a woman I 'd taught everything could speak to me like that ? ’ |
| 10 | But I feel it could grow on me , and I like it . |
| 11 | How much easier it would be if you could refer to me as Signor Sabatini , yes ? ’ |
| 12 | Least he could do for me . ’ |
| 13 | The doctor felt there was nothing more he could do for me . |
| 14 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 15 | You know that he stopped by the villa every day asking what he could do for me , offering lifts , bringing books , staying to talk . |
| 16 | You know nothing of my problems ! — Wait , one commission you could do for me ! ’ |
| 17 | Tell me when , when we when we s started our discussion of the planning the future document I did say that er there was one or two things you could do for me and er one of those of course was to ask you if you could , during the course of our discussion , if any names came to , to mind , anybody who you would find that you could er you could recommend me to or can refer to me to if in fact you found our discussions were of benefit |
| 18 | On the other hand , if you really feel indebted , Miss Fox , there is a small favour you could do for me in return . ’ |
| 19 | Thanks James you can potter away now , thank you actually there 's a job you could do for me James , if you like to , find all the things and put them over here with the labels stuck to them , can you do that for me ? |
| 20 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 21 | ‘ How right I was , ’ she whispered , ‘ to be afraid of what you could do to me . ’ |
| 22 | I had bestowed myself on Nour , and from now on he could do with me as he would . |
| 23 | She wrote my mum a long letter saying that I was a Devil Child and the best thing my mum could do with me was have me exorcized . |
| 24 | Hopefully , ‘ You … you could look on me as another sister . ’ |
| 25 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 26 | She could look at me and I would n't feel that horror , people recoiling from me — your Chesarynth would n't do that . |
| 27 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 28 | ‘ You assumed , from the beginning , that you could see through me . ’ |
| 29 | But Lili , I thought , should have known them , must have known them , for if she could see in me something to address then she could see something in any human being . |
| 30 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |