Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the unsafe distance of my perversion I could , at last , allow my real reactions to emerge . |
| 2 | I wish with all my heart I could believe what you say . |
| 3 | If I wanted to quadruple my income I could do it , very easily . |
| 4 | like that and eventually with the help of my mum I could join sentences together to make a real piece of writing . |
| 5 | From my rooftop I could see that one side of the prayer hall roof had collapsed . |
| 6 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 7 | They do n't seem to be interested in making money , they seem to be interested in spending it to my mind I could be wrong you know |
| 8 | From my seat I could see your profile . |
| 9 | She said that if I stood in my doorway I could see her face , for the girl was not veiled . |
| 10 | High up on the wall of my cell I could see where somebody had written his name with a pencil . |
| 11 | I was left in bed trying not to show how scared I was — shivering and wondering how long it would be before our own house caught fire , as from my window I could see the flames from the burning laundry , less than three hundred yards away . |
| 12 | But when you were My Princess I could not bear to imagine you stained by me . |
| 13 | Rodriguez was still struggling and out of the corner of my eye I could see the patron watching us uneasily . |
| 14 | As we were talking , out of the corner of my eye I could see Balvinder Singh stumbling back from the cooking-corner of the tent , holding a plate piled high with hot pakoras . |
| 15 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 16 | My mangled left hand feels as if it is being eaten by a rat , but I have so much adrenaline surging through my body I could sail . |
| 17 | At the far end of the street , where the beach curved into an arc — and where the water was far enough away from the slops of Main Street — there on my right I could see a grove of coconut palms behind the beach , almost bending over the sand like a canopy as they leaned against the trade winds . |
| 18 | In my imagination I could feel the monotony of the days in my country , the poverty and the nothingness . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Said Quinn , ‘ With my name I could always string along with the Irish — my father was Irish and my mother Mexican . |
| 21 | the structured thought patterns I found that the most important because when I was up at the table on the second presentation I was able to have my thoughts relating to the layout already and with in fact just the single element of the subject shown on my paper I could immediately focus on that and in fact give the details of that right the way through . |
| 22 | ‘ With you as my guide I could suffer the fires of hell . ’ |
| 23 | Each time I stopped to catch my breath I could hear his voice in the distance shouting , " Jane ! |
| 24 | When I reached my gate I could still see her grey shape at the door . |
| 25 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 26 | For the first time in my life I could not confess all my sins to the priest . |
| 27 | ‘ Did n't I tell you not so long ago that there was only one area of my life I could countenance sharing with you — and that purely out of necessity ? ’ |
| 28 | When he put his head up to the sound of my voice I could see the mess . |
| 29 | In my mirror I could see a woman in the car as well . |
| 30 | From the thicket I could see the bridge and to my amazement I could see Commandos marching in file across the bridge and coming slowly towards me , a few of them looking and pointing in my direction . |