Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The mast I could manage but I did n't know there were different names for the parts of the sail — the head being at the top , the leech at the back and the luff by the mast . |
| 32 | Well it 's a bit i well I , well I could do but it 's a bit tricky I mean to some |
| 33 | I could do but it 's er I did n't want to I 'm choosing when I wear it and when I do n't . |
| 34 | Well , I could do but I , you see , I have n't got the money to get home and you know |
| 35 | Probably I feel there 's always something else I could do and it never seems to stop . |
| 36 | ' I could dance but I could n't turn corners . |
| 37 | There , I asked the proprietor if there were any really old places I could visit and he directed me to a farm called La Valdieu . |
| 38 | The doc told me I could go but I would n't come back , but I managed to persuade her . |
| 39 | Now this act can take any form you like , I could go or I can go right , then I 'll go like this , and I want you all give me a great big round of applause . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | then I could start and you do n't get any |
| 42 | I could have but I do n't want too much rubbish around . |
| 43 | I felt rather mean at not staying to chat with him , but there was nothing I could say and I wanted to get away somewhere by myself to study movements of ships . |
| 44 | I 'll tell you something , if I it would be the first cruise liner I could find and I 'd be away and I |
| 45 | I pressed every button I could find and I still could n't find it . |
| 46 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 48 | I went home and I st I got very very anxious , I started feeling suicidal , I was blubbering at everything on the television , now I could cry but I was crying too much . |
| 49 | And I could hear and I could hear and I turned the light on and it would n't come on ! |
| 50 | And I could hear and I could hear and I turned the light on and it would n't come on ! |
| 51 | I started taking smack at school , 'cos everyone in the — estate at that time was taking it and that was the only place you could buy pot and I sent one of me mates out from school one day to buy some speed and he come back with smack and said this is all I could get and I said I do n't want none of that , but in the end we ended up doing it because we was bored and we had nothing else to do . |
| 52 | ‘ If it 's the same this week , then there is no way I could play but I hope it will improve , ’ said Hall as a programme of intensive treatment was arranged . |
| 53 | ‘ He asked me if I could help and I said I could but , to be honest , I do n't know how easy it will be to get the things they need . |
| 54 | And Les said I ca n't believe this he said , I he said if you 'd have been in business ten years that I could understand but he said to do it your first |
| 55 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 56 | My first book was an experiment to see if I could write and it has just gone on from there . ’ |
| 57 | There we would be , pistols at dawn and I 'd laugh or he 'd laugh and it would all be over . |
| 58 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
| 59 | Well he , he was asking me which I 'd prefer and I said I think you ought to consider Vicki not me on the crossing . |
| 60 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |