Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] could [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I think er erm when I first started down there , it was a job , I thought well this is a good job fifteen bob a week , that 's , that 's a lot more than some of the other boys who 'd left school got , they were twelve and six you see and erm , I think erm I came back out of the forces and took over more responsible jobs , I do n't think I could have gone to anything else but transport . |
| 2 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |
| 3 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 4 | I would have written far sooner , only — to be quite frank — I feared a snub , and I do n't think I could have borne it … |
| 5 | Well one of the things that I think has been very striking about John Major , and unfortunately again I 'm comparing him with Mrs. Thatcher , but it 's very difficult not to , thank goodness she was n't around during the Gulf war — that 's my feeling — because I do n't think I could have borne the idea of erm any more rejoice and up an atom and things like that . |
| 6 | ‘ I was very active and do n't think I could have done any more . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think I could have done that on my own , ’ Laura confessed . |
| 8 | ‘ Christ , man , I did n't think any of you guys should have been out there , but I do n't think I could have done what you did , in the Falklands . |
| 9 | I do n't think I could have done that if I had still been drinking or doing the things I was doing about ten years ago . |
| 10 | Mr Garner joined TI in 1979 , after a brief but colourful climb up the industrial ladder and having discounted the idea of becoming a professional trumpeter — ‘ I do n't think I could have stood the strain ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think I could have stood any more of that this morning . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't think I could have stood it crying for hours on end . |
| 13 | Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think I could have married anyone who does n't like animals , ’ she admits . |
| 15 | Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked . |
| 16 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
| 17 | I enjoyed my life with them and I do n't think I could have coped in the beginning without them . |
| 18 | I think because I was so inexperienced in the sixties , er I do n't think I could have coped with doing two things . |
| 19 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 20 | ‘ Once when all the chapels and the churches were thronged and full of singing I could have stayed because the flock was here , but now I have to go out seeking a flock . |
| 21 | I mean I could have made it up it was that easy . |
| 22 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 23 | Sarella turned in time to catch Marc 's worried glance following the reckless path of the jeep , but then he turned , and she could almost believe she 'd imagined that fleeting expression when he gave her a cynical smile and said , ‘ If it 's proverbs he wants I could have swopped him a more appropriate one . ’ |
| 24 | Reck'n ye could 've fried the eggs on the cylinder heads it 's so bright and clean and polished . |
| 25 | J. was one of these in his capacity as fitter/armourer , and he was there when an accident occurred which could have escalated into absolute disaster . |
| 26 | I do n't know who could have done this . ’ |
| 27 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 28 | At another time and place she could have helped me in no uncertain manner . |
| 29 | He walked with a limp , and had you not known better you could have mistaken the sores and scabs on his face for the kind of wounds worn by down-and-outs in Cardboard City . |
| 30 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |