Example sentences of "i could [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I could walk at least part of it , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 2 | But even if he chose lucky and came straight for the exit I had taken , I reckoned I could make at least twenty yards before he would open the door behind me . |
| 3 | I tried the clean channel ( channel 1 ) first and found that , good as its word , it remained clean , surviving all I could throw at it . |
| 4 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 5 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 6 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 7 | Before I could protest at the misrepresentation , Mary said , ‘ Oh , no , that 's not so at all — that 's a very unscientific remark , if you do n't mind my saying so , sir ! |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
| 9 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 10 | It was a flimsy pretext and might not get me anywhere , but it was the best I could do at such short notice . |
| 11 | I could continue at great length . |
| 12 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 13 | And the other two things I could mention at this point is that erm this activity , this useful time-structured activity , brings you into contact with other people . |
| 14 | I think that 's how you learn people 's true reactions to you , but by that time I was starting to feel better about myself , and I could laugh at them . |
| 15 | I regret if this remark has misled Mr Blair or you to think that I could preach at Kildalton as a Candidate . |
| 16 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |
| 17 | As a constable at Easton explained , ‘ I could stand at that comer there and catch a hundred people breaking some law or other in one shift , no bother . |
| 18 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |
| 19 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 20 | However , that is not an accusation that I could level at the Leader of the Opposition , as he has not found time to say anything at all about the environment — true or false . |
| 21 | I could tell at once that he was dead … |
| 22 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 23 | I could tell at a glance whether the job was done or not . |
| 24 | If I did n't go I could stay at home and work on the house . |
| 25 | I could stay at home and try to write a novel . |
| 26 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 27 | She explained that I could stay at Heenan House until I could find somewhere suitable to live . |
| 28 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |
| 29 | At the moment I 'm not getting any results , and I could go at any time . |
| 30 | I could have at one stage recited to you every discharge from [ the estuary upstream for fifty miles ] on the north bank of the river , in order . |