Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I could also give my opinion of the way you 've behaved . ’ |
| 2 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 3 | I could barely conceal my satisfaction – I felt we had ‘ arrived ’ . |
| 4 | It was a long while before I could even change her nappy , and putting clothes on , you had to disconnect all the wires , put the clothes on and put them all back . |
| 5 | The , for example , where I worked I had to bale out you know in the morning about thirty pails of water , you know before I could even see my footboard . |
| 6 | All the old signs appeared : I wanted to be sick , my knees kept quivering , and it took three deep-bowled cups of claret before I could even remember what day of the week it was . |
| 7 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 8 | so and I thought I could just leave him sort of like a message that was subtle enough |
| 9 | I could just see my hand when I held it out . |
| 10 | I could just see my face in it . |
| 11 | If I could just take your address . ’ |
| 12 | I could just imagine my father jumping up and down on this argument , this need for meaning , for faith . |
| 13 | I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’ |
| 14 | We can play chess and I could probably correct your anti-materialist views on the coal industry in a matter of moments . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If I could perhaps have your address for delivery please , Miss Milligan , ’ the chief assistant requested . |
| 16 | I could only make my exit . |
| 17 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 18 | ‘ I could only convince his wife , whose one concern is to save her stepdaughter . |
| 19 | At lunch I was sad and subdued , and I could hardly face my mother 's and father 's happy faces , or the rather more knowing glances of Aunt Lyallie , who I later discovered had put my mother wise to many things . |
| 20 | I felt I could hardly lift my arm to comb my hair it was such an effort ; but most of all I got so depressed knowing everything was piling up and I was n't doing anything about it , and soon I would n't be able to . |
| 21 | I could hardly contain my excitement . |
| 22 | My dear , I could hardly keep my patience . |
| 23 | I could hardly believe my luck . |
| 24 | With the election less than a fortnight away , I could hardly believe my luck . |
| 25 | I could never forget my grandfather . |
| 26 | Of course , I could never have your patience and study the stock exchange prices , Molly Coddle . |
| 27 | ‘ I could never turn my back on our home . |
| 28 | As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him . |
| 29 | I could still do my job , but my heart was n't in the day-to-day scramble for the latest pictures . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public . |