Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every weekend that they came to visit me would end in tears , and I was fourteen before I could manage without them , and before I stopped kissing my father goodnight . |
| 2 | But at this stage I could manage without it , without breaking the overall aim of carrying my own food and water . |
| 3 | They would sometimes say , ‘ If only I could walk like you . ’ |
| 4 | I could benefit from its charity work and I could contribute to it too . |
| 5 | I sent for it deliberate , so I could sleep in it . |
| 6 | This pleased Mum , until I made the mistake of asking Mary if I could sleep in it . |
| 7 | Anyways , if I could draw like you , I would n't bother about nothin' else . ’ |
| 8 | Wish I could draw like you . |
| 9 | I tried the clean channel ( channel 1 ) first and found that , good as its word , it remained clean , surviving all I could throw at it . |
| 10 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 11 | And I just found that I could talk to her , and I think she to me . |
| 12 | I asked the governor whether I could have a visit in the probation department so that Karen did n't have to see me in the gym with everyone else and I could talk to her a bit more intimately . |
| 13 | Yeah , no I could talk to her more than I could talk to him . |
| 14 | I could talk to them and they were a great comfort . |
| 15 | I saw him ; I could talk to him . |
| 16 | So , it was like a relief that I could talk to him about being pregnant . |
| 17 | If Dad was alive I could talk to him . |
| 18 | I could talk to him , like no one else . |
| 19 | Yeah , no I could talk to her more than I could talk to him . |
| 20 | If there was just one person I could talk to it would n't be so bad . ’ |
| 21 | Said you were top brass and that I could talk to you as if you were the Commissioner himself . " |
| 22 | I could talk to you the way I could n't talk to anyone else . |
| 23 | I saw Henniker glance at his watch , and I could sympathise with him . |
| 24 | ‘ The things I could do for him , ’ she sighed . |
| 25 | I did n't recognise him , nor did there seem to be anything I could do for him . |
| 26 | ‘ It was the least I could do for them . ’ |
| 27 | There are lots of things I could do for you , ma'am . |
| 28 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 29 | I feel like that the situation in which Carrington was in is what God does and that I 'm part of that situation , and that he was going to die , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 30 | It so , was there anything I could do about it ? |