Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he found out I knew about cameras and all that , he realised I could make myself useful round the studio , so I sort of moved in . |
| 2 | I realised I could race them keeping them and me fit . |
| 3 | I realised I could help myself and did n't have to be this fat , unhappy child , ’ she says . |
| 4 | Yet , strangely , even as he approached I could tell he would not harm me . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked for it , ’ Flavia said , ‘ the teasing and all , after the way I pretended I could get you a taxi . ’ |
| 6 | I even found I could hold her head and pet her while she threw up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But against all my expectations , the longer he kept away , the more I found I could hack it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She found she could wave her arms as she ran . |
| 11 | Once aboard , she found she could let them off the leash . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had remembered somewhere else from long ago , doubted she could find it but dared . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As they entered they could hear someone playing a cello . |
| 17 | ‘ I met thousands of people who pretended they could teach me how to do it . |
| 18 | They had no church affiliation : some were hurt , others were strong , but they all found they could commit themselves heart and soul to what we were doing . |
| 19 | Then , when I really insisted that they keep right on the centre line , they found they could do it if they tried hard . |
| 20 | Well they found they could do it far better with a tractor and a mower . |
| 21 | Students of literature , traditionally resentful as they often are to be told they might be engaged in anything severely useful , found they could sell their talents abroad as teachers , and had to tolerate the uncomfortably realistic view that the nation might recover through the teaching of English some small part of the wealth it had lost on technical adventures like building and running Concorde . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it seemed nothing could drag her thoughts away from Dane for long — he was always there on the edges of her mind , hovering like a kestrel ready to pounce on unsuspecting prey . |
| 24 | It seemed nothing could stop him , but there was still that chance of losing it to be overcome , and sure enough it came . |
| 25 | I believed I could do it . |
| 26 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 27 | I never believed I could wish anyone dead , but last night changed all that . |
| 28 | It seemed I could learn nothing of happiness from Lili unless I could first discover her secret . |
| 29 | I noticed I could see my breath . |
| 30 | 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 . |