Example sentences of "[that] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It soon became clear that I could no longer rely on friends for help with everyday chores like shopping and housework when I needed it . |
| 2 | It soon became clear that I could no longer rely on friends for help with everyday chores like shopping and housework when I needed it . |
| 3 | It soon became clear that I could no longer rely on friends for help with everyday chores , like shopping and housework , when I needed it . |
| 4 | The friend felt Levi had survived ‘ so that I could bear witness ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's just that I could never remember it afterwards , and anyway everyone seemed to pronounce it differently . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 11 | One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything . |
| 12 | When she had finished , she passed it over so that I could sign it . |
| 13 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 14 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 15 | But how , when he had nothing that I could take by force , steal , hide , break in front of him , tear up or trample underfoot , to vent my rage and spite ? |
| 16 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 17 | Perhaps I could have freeclimbed it , but the problem was that I could n't predict the pockets and I would n't have found out until it was too late to avoid a monster fall . |
| 18 | Keith Thomas pressed a button and a huge door clanked upwards so that I could peer into the heart of the furnace . |
| 19 | The classical piece Cale always claimed was in him never emerged , mainly because the showman in him would n't let it go : ‘ there was just so much chaos going on , in my personal and creative life , that I could n't finish … |
| 20 | But I was seduced by the thought that I could pull it off . |
| 21 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 22 | ‘ I said that I could not commit myself as my academic time was not yet finished , but I would like to be at their disposal later . ’ |
| 23 | That is why I said I would ‘ seek to agree ’ with the Chancellor : there is little by way of logical leverage that I could bring to bear upon them . |
| 24 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 25 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 26 | I wondered if this might have been from surprise over the fact that I could write , but it was just one of a fair catalogue of mannerisms he had to offer . |
| 27 | This meant that I could n't lead my own life at all ; when I complained about this to my husband he laughed it off . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew that there was always the danger that I could lose my sight , but I really thought it only happened later in life , ’ says Philippa . |
| 29 | He seemed so pleased with himself that I could n't help saying that I should mind them very much myself but that I had no objection to his wearing them — a view which I believed surprised him . |
| 30 | Not that I could see anything when I arrived — it was covered in cloud . |