Example sentences of "i could [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could lead you from that paragraph on page three fifty over to page three six four page three six four , one two three , four paragraphs from the top it 's ab it 's the second of two paragraphs that begins the Board affirms the church 's th that Christ teaches that marriage is special and divorce is not the way he would wish for his people and then this sentence no-one would wish to condens condemn someone to stay in a marriage which is beyond redeeming . |
| 2 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 3 | Unfortunately I could do nothing at all . |
| 4 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |
| 5 | I could do something with that hair . ’ |
| 6 | I could do it on each of these . |
| 7 | ‘ I could do it for thirteen . |
| 8 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 9 | The others you might not have argued but , you know , you might say my experience is that it , I could do it in eighty percent of that time . |
| 10 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 11 | ‘ I could give it to another paper instead , could n't I ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I really thought I could handle something like that ! |
| 13 | I could beat you along that line if I liked . |
| 14 | I could tell you about some of their sins ! |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't get you to come down here , Bella , so that I could escort you to bloody parties . |
| 16 | There 's no blooming so I mean I could drink something like that , which is purely chemical and never seen as li a damn orange That 's all it is is flavourings and water and |
| 17 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 18 | He told me that he would donate £5,000 to the fund if I would undertake to invite his little son , then at school in Oxford , to tea on odd occasions , so that I could acquaint him with some of the matters relating to Judaism . |
| 19 | ‘ What kind of man do you think I am , that I could forget something like that ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I wish I could court you with beautiful words , ’ the farmer went on , ‘ but I can only say I love you madly and want you for my wife . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , well you just said I could have it for thirty . |
| 22 | I could have you for that ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But thinking I could orchestrate us like that was pretty high-handed . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You mean I could say anything at all ? ’ she asked with a mischievous smile . |
| 25 | When a pump action toothpaste tube became empty in my bathroom , I decided to take it apart to see if I could put it to further use . |
| 26 | because the editor picks it up and say ‘ I can use that because I can see an angle , I could use it in this way or that way or , |
| 27 | If I could just get a role doing some of the falls in the action replays , say , I could save him from horrible injury , or at least the odd booking . |
| 28 | ‘ If I wanted to get into a fight , I could pick one behind any pub in Luton any night I wanted , ’ he says , only half jokingly . |
| 29 | I could tear you in two , but I 'm not really here . |
| 30 | Erm if I knew the pages in the report as well as I try to know my bible I could point you to another place Moderator where er |