Example sentences of "[conj] i could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to find myself work ( such as washing dishes or mending clothes ) , where I could observe without being too noticeable . |
| 2 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 3 | It was n't like working here , where I could slip into Spanish when things got ropey , and afterwards we 'd all go to the bar and tone up the group dynamics over a few drinks . |
| 4 | If you could find me a garret somewhere near you , where I could live for the next three months , I could finish it , and perhaps get it Published . |
| 5 | ‘ I took her to Anglesey , ’ says Christine , ‘ where we have a house , and where I could concentrate on her completely . |
| 6 | The next year , 1965 , he had his choice of three F1 teams competing for his services and chose BRM : as he has said , he wanted to be in a team ‘ where they would n't rush me , a team where I would n't be battling for my place every time I took the grid , a team where I could learn from a man like Graham Hill ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Or I could pretend to be someone else . ’ |
| 8 | Or I could decide to be supremely inconsiderate and have my baby at home . |
| 9 | At this point in the proceedings I was offered a choice ; either I would have to undergo a major operation , knowing that the surgeon did not know what was wrong , or I could go into a residential physiotherapy hospital , Farnhan Park , one of the largest of its kind in England . |
| 10 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |
| 11 | PS Mark , I did not get any slippers although I could do with some . |
| 12 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 13 | She explained that I could stay at Heenan House until I could find somewhere suitable to live . |
| 14 | not really feeling the need for a conversation , wishing only that I could stay on this bench with him forever . |
| 15 | I wish that I could go into the matter in more detail . |
| 16 | ‘ Would that I could go with you . |
| 17 | ‘ So when he told me he had to go back home to Fyn to meet someone , but that I could go with him if I wanted , I gave him an ultimatum . ’ |
| 18 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 19 | I 'd be a complete idiot if I thought that I could go through life and not bounce into the occasional person who did n't have my welfare at heart , and I 'm no idiot . |
| 20 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 21 | ‘ There was no reason that I could think of to tell you , and some reason not to . ’ |
| 22 | There could be no answer to that , none that I could think of at the time . |
| 23 | All aspects of intersection control that I could think of , and even some aspects of urban and road design and management are included in a chapter on links between intersections . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , ’ Athelstan added , ‘ is it possible that I could speak to one of the laundresses ? ’ |
| 25 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 26 | I regret if this remark has misled Mr Blair or you to think that I could preach at Kildalton as a Candidate . |
| 27 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 28 | I reached the desolate head of the valley ( few flowers here ) and decided to attempt a crossing to the other side of the beck so that I could return by the path descending from Black Sail Pass . |
| 29 | I know that I could suffer in that way but I hope I will be able to cope , ’ she added . |
| 30 | However , that is not an accusation that I could level at the Leader of the Opposition , as he has not found time to say anything at all about the environment — true or false . |