Example sentences of "[subord] i could [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any idea where I could lay my hands on an idiot 's guide to disputes ? ’ he asked . |
| 2 | I have often wondered if Levin made a 12-string guitar and if so , where I could lay my hands on one . |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted a sport where I could give my all , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 4 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 5 | I had gone , as the doctor had ordered , where I could feast my senses . |
| 6 | ‘ Don Marco drove me over so I could telephone my ‘ Jottings ’ and the house was crawling with carabinieri . |
| 7 | I pulled my window down and twisted round so I could stick my head out . |
| 8 | ‘ Mummy , ’ Matilda said , ‘ would you mind if I ate my supper in the dining-room so I could read my book ? ’ |
| 9 | If I could feed my own ego I wouldnae need to feed my face ! |
| 10 | ‘ I think you manage remarkably well , ’ Helen said , ‘ and the fact that you do makes me wonder if I could hold my party after all . |
| 11 | Even now , if I could get my hands on him . |
| 12 | I guess what I would really like is if I could get my own club and have everyone come to where I was ! |
| 13 | If I could get my hand on the dirty little tyke who wrote it — ‘ |
| 14 | If I could get my hands on that Micky Danby now , I 'd break his sodding neck . ’ |
| 15 | If I could get my . |
| 16 | If I could get my applicant , you see if , let's say we pay somebody , I du n no fifty , sixty quid a week , fifty quid a week to come and for , two mornings , three mornings , or whatever that 'll then give me enough time to contact the applicants and then ma , maybe maybe two stroke three sales extra per month . |
| 17 | ‘ Butler , ’ he said , once we were in the hall , ‘ I wonder if I could have my feet changed . |
| 18 | What I 'm saying sir is to save the inconvenience to the court is that if I could have my committal cos I do n't wan na be stuck up in this part of the country ! |
| 19 | If — if I could have my dinner in my room tonight I 'll be perfectly well tomorrow . ’ |
| 20 | I listened , wondering if I could hear my father . |
| 21 | I grabbed the top of the fence and pulled myself up until I could rest my forearms there , keeping myself about a foot off the ground by skidding the toes of my trainers — only cleaned last week as well — into the wet wood . |
| 22 | What I do is , I roll a towel up and that , and put , take them down on t' beach , you know , cos I could put my purse in and that . |
| 23 | Of course , that might suit me because I could wear my old rags and not attract attention . |
| 24 | On the other hand ( there is always another hand in these matters ) I would not claim that , because I could explicate my own novel line by line , that is all it could mean , and I am well aware of the danger of inhibiting the interpretive freedom of the reader by a premature display of my own , as it were , ‘ authorised ’ interpretation . |
| 25 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 26 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 27 | Before I could twist my face into anything faintly resembling a sneer , the vendor explained that there were four such structures in a similar state of repair and that a Frenchman had expressed great interest . |
| 28 | Richard was out of the car before I could open my door . |
| 29 | it 's erm , please leave your name and number , and the postal area code and I could n't figure out what they meant , your post code , or what , anyway , I sort , I , I left this long pause , shut your face I left this really long pause , and it just like clicked off before I could leave my phone number , so they 've got my , my answer and my names , but they have n't got my phone number , so I thought well , that 's not much good , they ca n't phone you , can they ? |
| 30 | Benjamin seized my wrist before I could grasp my knife . |