Example sentences of "[noun sg] i could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as far as the Catholics are concerned , I have to say I like the people very much but theirs is not a faith I could accept myself . |
| 2 | That 's another story I could tell you it 'd er er make your hair curl . |
| 3 | I hung on , keeping one eye on Neil in case I could help him , and the other on Stormy Petrel . |
| 4 | Through a tear in the singlet I could see his rib bones sticking out . |
| 5 | I wish with all my heart I could believe what you say . |
| 6 | Mum flopped down in her chair and did n't say a word but by her look I could see I would suffer for it later . |
| 7 | You 've got your questions and of course I could answer them Nicodemus I could tell the why 's and the wherefore 's of this , and of that , I could give you all the details and all the the the things that you want to know but , they 're not really important the real issue for you , Nicodemus , is that you have got to be born again ! |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I could believe it . |
| 9 | If I wanted to quadruple my income I could do it , very easily . |
| 10 | I ca n't see her in the dark , but from the hushed swell of her breathing I could draw you the map of her body . |
| 11 | More tidy illustrations , and better handwriting I could underline my titles . |
| 12 | Hang on , hang on Has anyone got some spare money I could pay 'em back ? |
| 13 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |
| 14 | If I had the address on a yellow card I could show it to someone and they 'd tell me . |
| 15 | Oh no we 've got some really hard numbers french if I had a dictionary I could look it up but I have n't . |
| 16 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 17 | Even in electronic mail I could find myself — and I see this among women colleagues — adopting a more relaxed approach . |
| 18 | From my seat I could see your profile . |
| 19 | If there were a fault I could detect it . |
| 20 | She said that if I stood in my doorway I could see her face , for the girl was not veiled . |
| 21 | I drank all the booze I could lay my hands on . |
| 22 | Kukuli was Quechua for ‘ beautiful bird ’ and even in the dim light of the carriage I could see she had eyes like stars . |
| 23 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 24 | The only passage I could find which could have referred to him was a section describing a debate during the LSE sit-in when the students were deciding whether to break down a pair of iron gates which lead to the bursar 's office . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's better , ’ said Joe , ‘ in that kind of mood I could put you on a horse and let you join in the charge of the Light Brigade . ’ |
| 26 | Erm if I knew the pages in the report as well as I try to know my bible I could point you to another place Moderator where er |
| 27 | Me — at a health farm — it 's the last place I could see myself , especially with my build which resembles that of a heavyweight wrestler but without the muscles ! |
| 28 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 29 | I always wore clogs , and if an iron came off while I was cycling to town I could take it to him , go off somewhere like the pictures , and it would be ready and waiting for me straight afterwards . |
| 30 | From my second-floor vantage point I could see my classmates as they tumbled out into the quad playing catch with my shoes . |