Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , do you know I wish , I just wish that I could explain how I feel , but I ca n't . |
| 2 | I could guess why he might have had trouble with the sort of people Barbara described : she said she had watched what happened but the men had not spotted her . |
| 3 | If I could understand why they accept such cruelty , I could understand why there is so much violence here . |
| 4 | There was no way that I could understand whereby he could exist . |
| 5 | Which I wish I could understand how you can bear . |
| 6 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |
| 7 | I was mesmerized by that mouth , by the sharp edges of white teeth I could see when she smiled . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , but you can imagine the problems that Gus would have at that time , and I could see why he would react like that . |
| 9 | I could see why he was angry : the windscreen of the Shogun was well-smeared with yellow paint and he 'd obviously reacted by turning on the windscreen-wipers , the worst thing he could have done . |
| 10 | Well yes he might , yes , I could see why he would know , yeah . |
| 11 | Right yeah erm not much more to add really I sum er summary of needs , I think that 's okay and you explored and probed quite well , the picture was good and all that , I could see where you were coming from . |
| 12 | It was for this reason that I had Zowie because I could see how he was with children . |
| 13 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 14 | Nobody could understand why they were friends , as they were different from each other in every way . |
| 15 | She was English , by the way , which could explain why they chose to insure with us . ’ |
| 16 | He was also workshy , and no-one could remember when he last had a regular job , but most people could recall when he 'd last tried to touch them for the loan of a bob . |
| 17 | No-one could understand why I was working with such an impossible lady . |
| 18 | In the dark she could ignore how he repelled her in the light . |
| 19 | She could n't swim , so that left her with only two options : she could stay where she was and wait for whoever was lurking there to reach out of the darkness — but with her nature that was unthinkable — or she could run the gauntlet . |
| 20 | She said that she could start whenever they needed her ; tomorrow , if they wanted . |
| 21 | But she could sense when he was getting her ready for a match and stood like a statue , even dropping her head for him to clip her mane . |
| 22 | She then had to visualize walking slowly towards them , knowing that she could stop whenever she wanted to so that she did not feel that she was being compelled to go near these birds . |
| 23 | Perhaps she could ask when she got home . |
| 24 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |
| 25 | Funnily enough , she could remember when she first heard that name . |
| 26 | This did not make any sense that she could see when she thought : but she felt the power of it . |
| 27 | She could see why he would want it . |
| 28 | She could see where she was going . |
| 29 | She could see where it got its name . |
| 30 | Now 45 , Marian decided to remain unemployed for six months so she could see how she felt about work , to settle her daughters and adjust to her new house . |