Example sentences of "[pron] could " in BNC.
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| 61 | You was big enough for her , I could see , but you 're only a baby still really. , ’ Jessie was crying now too , the tears swelling slowly out above the bags and pouches of her face and running into the wrinkles . |
| 62 | I could tell because she was nibbling her fingernails and then trying not to . |
| 63 | It 's just that I could never remember it afterwards , and anyway everyone seemed to pronounce it differently . |
| 64 | I could work up a good froth and then make my entrance doing an impression of a rabid dog . |
| 65 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 66 | Kezia refused a sandwich but she smiled at Annabel , and — I could hardly believe it — Annabel curtsied . |
| 67 | Although , at that moment I could have done with a little less myself . |
| 68 | I could make a floor plan of Father 's study , and I 'm good at listening behind doors . |
| 69 | I could give them the key to Father 's safe and they 'd be so grateful they 'd have a pair of boots made specially for me . |
| 70 | Kezia said , ‘ I wish too , I could stay forever . ’ |
| 71 | Well , if that meant Nanny leaving I could almost support the idea . |
| 72 | But Claire said , ‘ I wish there was something I could do to help . ’ |
| 73 | ‘ Disloyal to letter boxes , ’ I said to myself and went down the passage where I could laugh without being heard . |
| 74 | From my place on the gallery I could keep a watch on Claire 's door and on what was happening in the hall below . |
| 75 | If I could stay hidden until Kezia and the rest of the foreigners had gone , I would be all right . |
| 76 | I ran away as fast as I could along the pavement . |
| 77 | ‘ I could tell you a thing or two about the Countess of Warwick and letters from King Teddy . |
| 78 | Tomorrow , if I could find a better medium , I would throw away cinema . |
| 79 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 80 | The hidden speech was coming , I could tell . |
| 81 | I could n't , and do n't , blame her . |
| 82 | I was disappointed to find that accommodation was scarcer and more expensive than I thought it would be and the best that I could afford was a large first-floor room in a bedsitter house on Ladbroke Grove . |
| 83 | The job paid quite well and I could perhaps at that stage have afforded somewhere slightly better to live , but I 'd got used to my new home and I was still keen to try and build up some savings again . |
| 84 | Besides , I did n't think I could now save enough to make a significant difference to my standard of living when I retired , so I decided I might as well enjoy it while I had the chance . |
| 85 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 86 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 87 | One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything . |
| 88 | I could n't bear to have the television on either — I just sat there in silence , trying to work it all out . |
| 89 | When she had finished , she passed it over so that I could sign it . |
| 90 | I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying . |