Example sentences of "i could [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I believe I could love him in the other way , his way , now . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , I could do them on the train to the City some morning every week . ’ |
| 3 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 4 | But then again , I suppose I could do it without the though . |
| 5 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 6 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
| 7 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 8 | Maybe , maybe maybe I could do it from the theatre , would , would help |
| 9 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |
| 10 | I felt I could whizz it round the country lanes on school runs and trips up to town . |
| 11 | The brochure also would have outlined a number of other aspects in in more detail than I could give you on the phone . |
| 12 | I do n't have anything else that I could show you at the moment I 'm afraid . |
| 13 | When I came up to him , he stood stiffly aside so I could precede him up the stairs . |
| 14 | I could tell you about the money he has lent to people and never got back . |
| 15 | I wish I could tell you about the new brand names that have entered my life to take their place alongside Sony , Miyake , Commodore , Brother , Byblos , Hitachi and Nintendo — Mama and Papas , Baby Gap , Avanti , Ultra-Togs , Mama Toto , Mini/Man . |
| 16 | If I could refer you to the block beneath there on carry forwards , you started this year , bringing forward savings and under-spendings and various other contingencies of just over one and half million . |
| 17 | At my mother 's I could dry it in the garden . |
| 18 | I 've only done seven Well there 's twenty tapes and I 've got ta do as many as I can , I have n't done half of them yet , but if I could have them over the weekend I 'd be able to do loads more cos I 'm working on Saturday , I 'm going out Saturday , I think |
| 19 | I could read it from the Oxford |
| 20 | I ca n't think hitting him but I do n't think I could put him over the edge . |
| 21 | ‘ I could put it against the farm and it would n't cost anything . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been told by my superiors that I could use it in the same way that I would to prosecute anyone found mistreating a dog . |
| 23 | Mind you I could park it down the road could n't I ? |
| 24 | Oh that 's erm ah yes , I should try to use the calculator if I could find it on the machine ! |
| 25 | Doubted if I could find it in the undergrowth . |
| 26 | I could hear her at the door , |
| 27 | As the time grew nearer , Shanti began to call me Molly , and I could hear her on the telephone telling her friends , ‘ I 'm going to meet my mother . ’ |
| 28 | I could hear you in the heather , saying " Not far now " and it was annoying me . |
| 29 | But it was I mean I could hear it over the telly . |
| 30 | I was n't listening , but I could hear it from the dining room . |