Example sentences of "[conj] [det] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to or all I could go somewhere else . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot nicer than some I could name . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Safer in his arms than some I could mention , ’ Deirdre joked back . |
| 4 | ‘ I was so tired by that time that all I could do was sit in a deck-chair on the sea-front and sleep all day , but it was enough . ’ |
| 5 | She sat at the edge of the cockpit , curled her legs into the warm shelter of the jacket , then hunched down into the thick collar so that all I could see of her face was her enormous , moon-silvered and lemur-like eyes beneath the pale gleam of her short bright hair . |
| 6 | And these I could n't get up this morning thought about . |
| 7 | Eva was only two then , and all I could think was that he 'd stolen my little girl . |
| 8 | She got hold of the railings and all I could hear was screams . |
| 9 | The ‘ magic ’ medium in this endearing space-hopper device is Siporax , claimed to work wonders in nitrate-removal , though my levels stuck resolutely at 30ppm and all I could seen in terms of visual improvement was a better class of blanketweed : sort of lusher , nar mean ? |
| 10 | ‘ I realised he was n't going to be able to stop and all I could do was watch him come closer and closer to me . |
| 11 | I wanted to run out and scream , but Mum had the key and all I could do was stand stock still , listening to the thumping of my heart . |
| 12 | Is that what she was like ? ’ and all I could do was say well , no , not at all … but that was the licence you got at the NME , because the most important word in the paper is I . ’ |
| 13 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 14 | There was a big rubber mark on Alain 's fairing , and all I could see was this big black torpedo trying to bite my leg off . ’ |
| 15 | I gazed at the picture of the crocodile pool and all I could think of to say was , did the gallery owner give you a discount because you 're a friend of Robert 's ? |
| 16 | The air dissolved around cordon bleu , and all I heard were parrot screeches , barking and the blowing of a horse 's soft mouth — that was him — and all I could say was : Quack quack quack . |
| 17 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 18 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 19 | And all I could think about was George , about how I had nothing at all left for George now . |
| 20 | And all I could think , as the service began , was the whole truth of my heart ! |
| 21 | I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me . |
| 22 | And all I could think of was the way that baby had felt in my arms , and inside I was hating God for doing this to me . ’ |
| 23 | It was the last lecture of the day , and all I could think about was getting back to Chelsea Terrace . |
| 24 | And all I could remember and all the the only thing I can remember about that was running after the car with . |
| 25 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 26 | Her touch became lighter until all I could feel was the heat radiating from her palms . |
| 27 | But all I could do was remind people of John 's situation . |
| 28 | But all I could think was , would we be allowed to film him ? |
| 29 | But all I could do was wrestle with the lunging hind foot , dressing the infected cleft with a crude mixture of copper sulphate and Stockholm tar and finishing with a pad of cotton wool held by a tight bandage . |
| 30 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |