Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 2 | When the bus pulled to a halt and I got off I was relieved because I had finished school and I had the weekend ahead of me so I could enjoy myself . |
| 3 | Well our stint was a lot longer than his so he could keep three horses going you see ? |
| 4 | I just I just I could have spent five afternoons and it was finished . |
| 5 | I well I could tell you the inside story of that but I 'm not going to but I will tell the outside , the public story . |
| 6 | You joked that as you kissed me deeply you could taste the tang of my lunchtime Cumberland sausage . |
| 7 | " When she smiled at me yesterday I could see a resemblance . |
| 8 | Madam Chairman if I may just make a comment of concern that information was not , on this point was not forthcoming to the county councillors of that area perhaps to make er give them an opportunity to make comment prior to you so you could make this delegated action . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , I did n't give it to you so you could go drippy on me . |
| 10 | Erm it 's erm this is people or stories but a based again I 'm sure when y as you read through you 'll probably find quite a lot of the erm little things that they 're giving you here you could relate to in your own life , either for yourself or for other people that you know . |
| 11 | Yes in a way , except she well you could do , it could be done . |
| 12 | you know I mean it 's not just one of them surely she could give the police some indication of what he 's like |
| 13 | I longed to prove you were unfaithful to him so I could make him throw you over — I felt like a monster with every ungenerous thought that flickered through my mind . |
| 14 | Later still , the analyst suggests that Fraser may want to offer reparation , by writing this book , for the guilt he had felt in relation to his father , and Fraser asks : ‘ For wanting to destroy him so I could have my mother to myself ? ’ |
| 15 | As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground . |
| 16 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 17 | By looking at him now you could sense that future , and his eyes reminded you that he had not asked to be born . |
| 18 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 19 | I replied that if colleagues agreed with him then we could forget about the whole review . |
| 20 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 21 | And if you 're sensible and watch her closely you could learn a thing or two . ’ |
| 22 | It 's understood Mr Culley was devoted to animals and kept them everywhere he could find space . |
| 23 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 24 | ‘ If he had just left me there I could have died . ’ |
| 25 | His exact words were , ’ It 's solid up there , if they peg it right you could win the match . ’ |
| 26 | At night , when he was getting ready for bed , he would switch on his bedside lamp and stand with his back to it so he could see his shadow against the far wall . |
| 27 | He 's got turkey salad and he did n't even eat it so I took the , the top off it so he could see the turkey in it , then he changed his mind now , I thought he might . |
| 28 | He picked up the folded-over paper , flicked it so he could scan the lower half of the broadsheet . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 30 | So I did the CD , put it out and thought , ‘ Hey , if it sells a couple of thousand , I 'll be smiling all the way , ’ because I just did it so I could have something to hand people . |