Example sentences of "[pron] could " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing . |
| 32 | As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face . |
| 33 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 34 | Hitting me with her little fists , but I could n't get the smile off my face . |
| 35 | For some reason I could n't , though I could see it was that which infuriated her more than anything . |
| 36 | For some reason I could n't , though I could see it was that which infuriated her more than anything . |
| 37 | I wanted to but I could n't . |
| 38 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 39 | Days eating scraps because I could not bear to enter a shop , talk to another human being , have people see me . |
| 40 | Yesterday I could n't have done it . |
| 41 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 42 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 43 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 44 | Until now I could always say : this is trivial , not important , but tomorrow I m starting the big one . |
| 45 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 46 | Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see . |
| 47 | I could n't take London any more , he said . |
| 48 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 49 | I told him I could n't stop him , he was a free agent . |
| 50 | I could see it in his eyes . |
| 51 | As the managing director of a recently formed company with , to date , only one outlet , I was quite naturally looking for any help I could get , advisory or financially or both . |
| 52 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 53 | Being married and having young children , the range of chef 's hours available within contract catering was , of course , attractive ; but the main incentives were the obvious routes by which I could move upwards on joining High Table . ’ |
| 54 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 55 | He went on and on about it until I could cheerfully have strangled him . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ Does n't matter — I could have done it , ’ said David , pointedly . |
| 57 | ‘ Well , all I know is , I could n't get back to sleep , ’ said Mrs Feather wearily . |
| 58 | ‘ I could n't find the words to tell Dorothy , so I said it was a wrong number . |
| 59 | I could n't stand it . |
| 60 | I was so shook up by the screeching I could n't rightly say what happened . ’ |