Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him if I could rent his cottage . |
| 2 | I tell my students during my evolution and behaviour course not to use the F word and the F word is fitness and I advise them strongly not to , and if I could ban it I would . |
| 3 | Would that I could undo what has been done . ’ |
| 4 | So I had to try to prove to them that I could manage him . |
| 5 | " I could manage one , I think . |
| 6 | ‘ I really do not think I could manage my affairs without her assistance . ’ |
| 7 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 8 | I 've never been in one but I 've read so much about how to do it I 'm sure I could manage it . ’ |
| 9 | I told 'im I was gettin' over me wounds an' 'e said the work was 'ard an' did I fink I could manage it . |
| 10 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 11 | I I do n't think I could manage it . |
| 12 | If I could set something up in Northumberland it would be a good thing . |
| 13 | Now I could set my sights on the European Championships in Stuttgart . |
| 14 | I observed this routine the day after I learned that my services were no longer required at the Oxford International Language College , and I knew that barring an Act of God I could set my watch by it thereafter . |
| 15 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 16 | A something I something A Oh , I could 've you that |
| 17 | I used to smoke as much smack as I could lay me hands on . |
| 18 | If it had been removed from the files , like myself and my career , I could lay myself to rest and forget myself . |
| 19 | ‘ Any idea where I could lay my hands on an idiot 's guide to disputes ? ’ he asked . |
| 20 | Against the farmed land , be damned , I thought , and let drive with all the most forceful arguments I could lay my tongue to . |
| 21 | In the days when I had more time to spare I would read any book I could lay my hands on and particularly enjoyed anything about foreign lands . |
| 22 | I have often wondered if Levin made a 12-string guitar and if so , where I could lay my hands on one . |
| 23 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 24 | I drank all the booze I could lay my hands on . |
| 25 | I spent the days and nights talking with tenants , trade unionists , blacks and whites , punks and skinheads , single parents and old-age pensioners , their neighbours , workmates and relatives — anybody I could lay my hands on . |
| 26 | I could walk you know . |
| 27 | But before I could fetch it , he told me to come near him . |
| 28 | I wanted to see if I could experience it . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I could experience it . |
| 30 | ‘ I do wish you 'd make some effort to grow up , ’ said my mother before she could stop herself , for she did n't want her future son-in-law to know how much I could irritate her . |