Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sure I could expect a large present from her , either before or after her death . |
| 2 | Mundane soap and a tiny towel were all I could fault . |
| 3 | like if you were dyslexic I could help you . |
| 4 | If Dad was alive I could talk to him . |
| 5 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 6 | I thought my eyes must be starting out of my head , too , but there was little I could do ; I was trying the best I could to think of something distracting to say to Eric . |
| 7 | ‘ There was little I could do to set her mind at rest except be myself , but I think they feel comfortable with me now . |
| 8 | Ma and Pa Pickering tried to probe , but I was sorry I could n't help them . |
| 9 | I thought the S.S.O. seemed puzzled , but as the light was dim I could have been mistaken . |
| 10 | As I had no access to the Swansea accounts during that time , it was clear I could n't have embezzled anything from the company . |
| 11 | By all the normal rules I should have pulled away before that , but if the road was clear I could let things get more serious before doing anything , and if it was blocked it was already too late . |
| 12 | It was funny I could n't remember . |
| 13 | When evening came I was afraid I could n't trust her , because I did n't know how much you suspected , what clever questions you might have to get at the truth . ’ |
| 14 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 15 | Dawyck said he was sure I could claim on my insurance . |
| 16 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 17 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 18 | I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’ |
| 19 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 20 | ‘ I lay on my nail scissors by mistake — they were under the rug — and just at the moment , well , to be graphic , an awful pain from outside was all I could feel . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ No , Jordi , no ! ’ was all I could say as the train slowly carried him away into the dawn . |
| 22 | ‘ Lemurs are a delicacy in Madagascar and it was all I could do to stop my fellow passengers eating them , ’ he says . |
| 23 | ‘ Aunt Kit was drunk , ’ was all I could manage . |
| 24 | Later Wendy admitted that ‘ four or five boys in a row was all I could manage ’ . |
| 25 | And when I was n't with her , like when I had to go to school and she had to stay behind in my bedroom until I came home , she was all I could think about . |
| 26 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 27 | ‘ I understand , ’ was all I could murmur . |
| 28 | It was all I could do to keep my feet . ’ |
| 29 | She was heavy and it was all I could do not to let her slide through my arms . |
| 30 | An enigma was all I could hope for . |