Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 2 | Do you think I could go to the powder room and take off my girdle ? ’ she said . |
| 3 | But I do n't think I could cope on my own without my mum and dad even if I did have all that money . |
| 4 | I did n't think I could cope with another night in that flat all alone . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't think I could cope with the memory of you sitting in my study weeping . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't think I could cope with your heartbreak . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't think I could cope with all that smouldering passion — not to mention the possessiveness . ’ |
| 8 | I said , oh I do n't think I could cope with that ! |
| 9 | Do you think I could rise to such wisdom ? ’ |
| 10 | Who do you think I could trust with that hanging over me ? |
| 11 | Oh Well I always loved the sea , i do n't think I could live without seeing the sea . |
| 12 | Well it 's , I mean , you know , it 's I I do n't think I could live with the conscience , if I was selling I would say well look |
| 13 | Her father David , of nearby Lytham , said : ‘ You do not think someone could die from a disease in just 10 hours . ’ |
| 14 | There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ? |
| 15 | I 'd barely finished my prawn cocktail before I realised I could fall for him . ’ |
| 16 | I mean I could work at the for three pound an hour . |
| 17 | Oh cos Sal and at speech day she goes God she goes I could do with a good screw . |
| 18 | But if I did n't know I could count on you , I suppose you would n't be here . " |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't know I could look like that . |
| 20 | Having lost my own job , I found I could relate to everything in this honest and moving article . |
| 21 | ‘ Jesus , Andy , ’ said Callahan , ‘ I did n't know you could surf like that . ’ |
| 22 | What was physically happening you could relate to that and you got that sorted out . |
| 23 | And when her husband cracked another joke , she found she could laugh with the rest . |
| 24 | She found she could sit at work in the Rose Bowl , her hands occupied as they were now , while in her head she relived the moments she had spent with Luke ; his hands caressing her ; his mouth on hers . |
| 25 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 26 | If you were caught you could point to the cucumber and deny responsibility . |
| 27 | At his suggestion , two soldiers from the Senussi tribe , a local Libyan people some of whom served as auxiliaries to the British Army , were included who could act as guides . |
| 28 | For there had been no lack of men whom she had wished she could fall in love with , good men who would undoubtedly have made her happy . |
| 29 | The instruments were housed in a screen which was approached by a paved path , and now that blackout restrictions were lifted we could use outside electric light . |
| 30 | I do n't know we could look into that . |