Example sentences of "[noun] i could " in BNC.

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1 One mistress I could ignore — but he 's now on his sixth .
2 The only concession I could not get was leave to see him alone , but it 's plain I should have got nowhere with him even so .
3 The thing was , they were playing blues in both major and minor keys , and I was feeling very tied down by the number of notes I could reach in my major open tunings .
4 Now , as far as the Catholics are concerned , I have to say I like the people very much but theirs is not a faith I could accept myself .
5 Oh yeah , by the Shrimp I could of got pregnant !
6 Sir , — Nine years ago I volunteered my services as a school governor , believing that the expertise I could offer would be helpful to headteacher , staff and pupils .
7 He said that money was no object — those were his actual words — and he wanted the most expensive teeth I could provide .
8 I was mesmerized by that mouth , by the sharp edges of white teeth I could see when she smiled .
9 I resisted the urge to retort with his curtness , ‘ Because he 's not sleepy ’ , and gave all the medical reasons I could think of .
10 From these accounts I could n't recognise the Tom Watt I thought I had known .
11 ‘ That 's illegal , ’ said Malpass , but as he was in the back of Armstrong I could n't see if he was serious or not .
12 Through the wheels of Armstrong I could read the fly posters on a spare piece of wall on the other side of the street .
13 ‘ And if there 's anything you want from Red Cottage I could fetch that too later on . ’
14 ‘ We-ell , they 're forecasting heavy rain , ’ Simon pointed out , ‘ but if I had a key to the cottage I could go in and fix up some temporary weatherproofing until the roof can be properly repaired . ’
15 That 's another story I could tell you it 'd er er make your hair curl .
16 The pannier bags normally stay on , but this climb came only one day into the trip and with a fortnight 's food on board I could n't even lift my bike .
17 I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail .
18 She said : ‘ The first time I heard of a case I could not believe it .
19 In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named .
20 If it was a straightforward case I could see , treat and discharge the patient without reference to a doctor .
21 I hung on , keeping one eye on Neil in case I could help him , and the other on Stormy Petrel .
22 Why , the galaxy is so vast that in the latter case I could continue to pose — and behave — as an Inquisitor ; though I would truly be a renegade … ’
23 My room was on the landward side of Chapuis , so in any case I could not have watched the schooner depart .
24 in case I could n't do the job
25 I used to bring down quilts and my machine was n't big enough and in any case I could n't possibly lift them once they were
26 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 .
27 To go to the one in the park we 'd have to go up that hill and there 's no way I can push this buggy with Bryony in the front and all these fruit and vegetables I could n't get up and the hang on to you two with your reins I could n't get up that steep hill .
28 It 's the foreign woman with an accent I could n't place .
29 You 'd bloody like to go on holiday to America and they come back with an American accent I could shoot people who do that .
30 No they do n't , but it was the only accent I could think of at the time .
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