Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] i could " in BNC.

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1 In oxy-hemocyanin , too , the electronic spectrum , taken with the g-values from the ESR spectrum , shows that the copper(II) ions were in slightly distorted tetrahedral environments , and so the ready electron transfer to give tetrahedral Cu I could be understood .
2 I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it .
3 Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her .
4 Sam kept saying how much good I could do everybody if I had power and money .
5 I knew how much good I could do in a case like this .
6 And , it seemed to me that when I , as the er your representative on Provincial Finance Committee is asked to make a co , commitment for this , for this for er for nineteen ninety three I could say no better than what we had as out target this year and that was hard !
7 Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before .
8 But I was n't at all sure I could carry it off .
9 My God , I was n't at all sure I could trust myself !
10 Not at all sure I could have done it any better . ’
11 which they all do in my class , cos they 're all thick I could n't believe it right
12 I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach .
13 At first all I could see was the hazy black outline of a jagged peak , little more than a shadow on the pallor of a dead calm sea , and then , as the air shimmered and danced and drew nearer , I could make out colours , mostly green .
14 five hundred , five hundred I could only say he was n't , five o'clock last night he was no so he went to the one doctor , so to the erm what 's gon na happen when they when he , when they can go down the doctors that 's first of all go into this and after ten , twenty four hours doing this kind of thing for forty eight hours up .
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