Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised I could race them keeping them and me fit . |
| 2 | Yet , strangely , even as he approached I could tell he would not harm me . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked for it , ’ Flavia said , ‘ the teasing and all , after the way I pretended I could get you a taxi . ’ |
| 4 | By a miracle I found I could do it : standing upright on the pedals and pedalling with all my might I reached the road , where Nora was waiting for me . |
| 5 | But against all my expectations , the longer he kept away , the more I found I could hack it . |
| 6 | Anna found she could do it quite well , but Corrie had no aptitude at all , though when it came to learning Foundling hymns she excelled . |
| 7 | Once aboard , she found she could let them off the leash . |
| 8 | She could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 9 | She had remembered somewhere else from long ago , doubted she could find it but dared . |
| 10 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 11 | If you concentrated you could make them all line up , in 3-D ; and then it would all just collapse and be jiggling spots again . |
| 12 | ‘ I met thousands of people who pretended they could teach me how to do it . |
| 13 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 14 | Well they found they could do it far better with a tractor and a mower . |
| 15 | By half emptying one of the sacks onto the floor of the van he found he could drag it with his right hand and hold onto the box with his left . |
| 16 | It seemed nothing could stop him , but there was still that chance of losing it to be overcome , and sure enough it came . |
| 17 | I believed I could do it . |
| 18 | Anyway , it seemed nobody could touch him when he was ten ahead but he was playing with Kel Nagle , and ever since 1960 Kel had been a bit like Arnold 's bogy man . |
| 19 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 20 | Well she thoroughly enjoyed the life , in fact right up , oh till nearly the end she spoke about Pharay and as long as she was able she used to go and she imagined she could see it better with the spy glasses . |
| 21 | She imagined she could hear it at her back , behind the house and the soft green swell of land that shielded it , could hear the breaking thud of the winter waves on the shore she had not yet seen . |
| 22 | Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site , people believed they could do it again , and did . |
| 23 | If they liked you they believed they could teach you to do anything and by God ! you 'd do , it as well as anyone . |
| 24 | Not only did he see no advantage in change , he believed he could prevent it indefinitely . |
| 25 | The court heard that Jones scoured the Penrhys estate after the burglary and took his friends to Mr Penrose 's house because he believed he could lead them to the culprits . |
| 26 | As darkness came he could hear her laboured breathing and knew that she was as ill as she said . |
| 27 | We should scarcely find the style of Henry James worth studying unless we assumed it could tell us something about James as a literary artist . |
| 28 | As you passed you could hear them murmuring ‘ Ya Allah ! |
| 29 | Then I finally realised you could see it , but you 'd decided simply to ignore it . |
| 30 | I reckoned I could blackmail him into a job . |