Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him if I could rent his cottage . |
| 2 | ‘ I just assumed I could rent a plane and fly over . |
| 3 | ‘ I could rent a place like this next year . |
| 4 | I tell my students during my evolution and behaviour course not to use the F word and the F word is fitness and I advise them strongly not to , and if I could ban it I would . |
| 5 | I could undo one of the latches of Filmer 's briefcase and , given time , I might do the other . |
| 6 | Would that I could undo what has been done . ’ |
| 7 | Well I could undo the feet and put socks on her . |
| 8 | I came home with a heavy heart and wondered how on earth I could foster vocations . |
| 9 | I could substantiate the information that Mr. Docherty gave me through contact with the West Yorkshire metropolitan police . |
| 10 | ‘ I could manage this horse , ’ Alexander answered seriously , ‘ better than others do . ’ |
| 11 | I think I could manage two ! ’ |
| 12 | I coughed again and set my voice into as impersonal a tone as I could manage . |
| 13 | Maybe if I 'd been encouraged then to find pleasure and personal fulfilment instead of pain and resentment I could manage to beat the under-11s on those final few metres . |
| 14 | But at this stage I could manage without it , without breaking the overall aim of carrying my own food and water . |
| 15 | The first yard took all the effort I could manage , creeping a toe 's length at a time , my rubber soles slipping on the loose stones , as the wheelbarrow pushed me back to where I had been and we fell over . |
| 16 | All I could manage in return was a sickly smile and a feeble , ‘ Thank you , Ma'am . ’ |
| 17 | I 've never been in one but I 've read so much about how to do it I 'm sure I could manage it . ’ |
| 18 | If I could manage to absorb a tablet in between the bouts of vomiting it did stop the sickness and bring a pain-free sleep — but it left me too exhausted to do anything about enjoying life . |
| 19 | I enjoyed what little of it I could manage , though . |
| 20 | ‘ I could manage — of course I could ! |
| 21 | ‘ I could manage stockings out of what you 've given me . ’ |
| 22 | I picked out as many balls as I could manage , then she closed the lid and we returned downstairs . |
| 23 | ‘ Aunt Kit was drunk , ’ was all I could manage . |
| 24 | Later Wendy admitted that ‘ four or five boys in a row was all I could manage ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I told 'im I was gettin' over me wounds an' 'e said the work was 'ard an' did I fink I could manage it . |
| 27 | Every weekend that they came to visit me would end in tears , and I was fourteen before I could manage without them , and before I stopped kissing my father goodnight . |
| 28 | " How pretty , " was the best I could manage in my present mood . |
| 29 | I could manage to lose five or six pounds and then I would break the diet , go back to normal food and put all the weight back on again . |
| 30 | I 've gained a great deal of experience these psst two and a half years and I think I could manage a stud farm quite easily now . |