Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I thought , if I got that I could give it to Irene and could go wedding . |
| 2 | It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’ |
| 3 | Up until then I had seldom visited a doctor and prided myself that most things that went wrong I could put right myself . |
| 4 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 5 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I trained tremendously hard and felt sure I could beat anyone in the world . ’ |
| 7 | This might have been because he 'd been kept in an aviary and not given enough exercise , and i felt sure I could put that right . |
| 8 | I felt sure I could work it through the orifice without cutting the sphincter . |
| 9 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |
| 10 | I did not mind that often the work was well below what I felt certain I could do . |
| 11 | The two young girls , I predicted , would not find such changes so difficult to accommodate , but I did all I could to see that Mrs Clements suffered the least adjustments , to the extent that I undertook for myself a number of duties which you may consider most broad-minded of a butler to do . |
| 12 | I did all I could to encourage Bernstein to chat with John , who seemed even then to be developing into one of Canada 's most versatile and brilliant conductors . |
| 13 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 14 | I always held that view and did all I could to press for an election before Christmas in order that we might get a majority large enough to stand the racket . " |
| 15 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |