Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [pron] could " in BNC.

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1 I and I could n't believe it I actually did it right .
2 I , I and you could 've done with a queen .
3 I thought it was Annie , and we 'd go home together and see Marie and they 'd both be proud of me and we could sit in front of the Christmas tree together and guess what the wrapped up presents were , and eat mince pies and all that .
4 By the time this chore was finished , I was so tired I fell into a doze on the veranda , dreaming of a Gauguin nude of Aleena 's grandmother , and then of a painting of Tiare and her daughter , and then how easy it would be if they could all come and live with me and we could just hang the pictures on the walls and enjoy them .
5 any , any other sort of mouse I could have brought me mouse with me and we could have run it off the serial port erm it 's a pain that Amstrad mouse .
6 Look , if you do n't mind a bit of running you could just come as far as the Tube with me and we could continue this conversation on the way .
7 My nightmares returned at a time when everything was crowding in on me and I could n't cope .
8 I would n't be able to live with myself for putting him through that , but then he would nicker to me and I could breath a sigh of relief .
9 ‘ I wish he 'd at least been honest with me and I could have divorced him .
10 It was the first time she had actually said for certain that she would sail with me and I could not hide my joy , and Ellen , seeing that pleasure , laughed at it .
11 I had straightened up and moved aside so that the sun no longer dazzled me and I could see Sweetman properly , and what I saw I did not like .
12 Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair .
13 ‘ Then Orient came in for me and I could not have been happier with the way things worked out . ’
14 Anita , who with co-star Raymond Slijingaard is at No. 12 with The Magic Friend — the duo 's fourth smash hit in just seven months — reveals : ‘ Everything got too much for me and I could n't cope .
15 Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées .
16 Then Mr Broadhurst seemed to start towards me and I could no longer be sure where he was , in my head , on the shop window or the pavement ?
17 It was certainly no more important to me and I could quite happily go for weeks without any .
18 BELVILLE : [ aside ] The bewitching girl every day rose in her charms upon me and I could not help entertaining a jealousy that she was writing to somebody who stood well in her opinion , and my feelings for her made it a sweetheart , of course .
19 ‘ Well , the housemaid said something to me before I came in to prayers , and that just tickled me and I could n't help it . ’
20 Anne looked at me and I could see , even in the state I was in , that there were tears in her eyes .
21 ‘ I felt you were lost to me and I could n't understand why . ’
22 lt was heading away from me and I could see the twin yellow eyes of its exhaust which dilated as the plane changed its inclination and became airborne .
23 All seems to me and I could quote other other references from P P Gs as well to support the point , seems to me that the thrust of government guidance is balance .
24 send me and I could read that .
25 My Mum looked down at me and I could tell she was just about to cry .
26 And yet my s my oldest sister she was three years older than me and she could n't remember him .
27 He was beckoning to them and they could see that the group was preparing to move off .
28 So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down .
29 They may not do them and we could still issue , we would still have to issue the statements of general conformity .
30 Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat .
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