Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone could offer me a million quid for Henry , but there would be no sale . |
| 2 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 3 | Looking at my diary after lunch , I realised it was MKM day and they might sell out before someone could get me a copy ! |
| 4 | Nobody could tell me its correct name and it was known simply by the Greek equivalent of ‘ night-bloom ’ . |
| 5 | Because nobody could tell me about sport , nobody could guide me , which is what I needed . |
| 6 | I 've often asked , but nobody could tell me for certain . ’ |
| 7 | Er but nobody could tell me for certain what it was that they intended to use it for , er but it was apparently not guaranteed that it would continue to be used er as a market hall . |
| 8 | I was a little afraid , but this was something really important ; nobody could make me get married after I had discovered something as strange as this . |
| 9 | I expect , cos when I came back from there nobody could understand me . |
| 10 | Nobody could find me now . |
| 11 | Nobody could see me now . |
| 12 | Because nobody could tell me about sport , nobody could guide me , which is what I needed . |
| 13 | Or somebody could tell me . |
| 14 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 15 | I reassured myself that nothing could stop me keeping in touch with the women on a voluntary basis , provided they wished to remain friends . |
| 16 | But that evening nothing could touch me . |
| 17 | Besides , the way I feel now nothing could offend me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If you invite me nothing could keep me away . ’ |
| 19 | Strong though my anxiety was to save him , nothing could force me to duck my head voluntarily beneath that stinking spate . |
| 20 | ‘ No-one could accuse me of being a half-b-b-bottle man , ’ said Ricky . |
| 21 | ‘ It seems that I still have some friends in Swansea , ’ Edward said softly , ‘ no-one could convict me on such trumped-up evidence . |
| 22 | No one could accuse me of delaying consideration of allegations of miscarriage of justice when they have been presented to me . |
| 23 | The conviction started from my body and the discovery that no one could prevent me — if I were determined enough — from treating it as I wished . |
| 24 | No one could approach me without my authority . |
| 25 | Looking back , I can see how infantile my behaviour was — but then I was flushed with success , convinced that nothing and no one could thwart me . ’ |
| 26 | No one could hear me because the wind was strong . |
| 27 | This is why I had the right attitude when I first got to British Aerospace , anybody any , any anything anybody could tell me about how to fucking like that |
| 28 | I do n't think anybody could see me behind the bouquet and I had trouble finding the keyhole . |
| 29 | I wonder if anybody could help me ? |
| 30 | I think anybody could hear me . |