Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
| 2 | Even if I did , I do n't see how I could silence her . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew how I could make you feel , ’ he corrected , ‘ but there 's a great deal of difference between bodily chemistry and love . |
| 4 | the was that the first one was was more or less science orientated an I I , I looked at it and thought how how I could how I could make it such that it was common |
| 5 | He said he had always known politics was a dirty game and he could not understand how I could endure it . |
| 6 | But this did not mean I was happy with it , or knew , precisely , when and how I could carry it out . |
| 7 | I wish I could suggest a meeting before I go , but it 's all happened so suddenly I just ca n't see how I could fit it in . |
| 8 | But I expect that you all want to know how I could do it — how I could have walked in and scooped up this yummy young man from the arms of his loving and lawful wife . |
| 9 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 10 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 11 | Now I would be calling a solicitor to see how I could get it dissolved on the best possible terms . |
| 12 | It was broken already so I glued it up , just had a look at it see how I could get it , its broken it again . |
| 13 | ‘ But would you care to tell me how I could turn it round , since the snow 's narrowed the width of the road to a single track ? |
| 14 | I told him how I could freeze my eidetic images , then project my phantom body into them , to discover things that I could not possibly have known . |
| 15 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 16 | That 's how I could afford my passage to England and this holiday . |
| 17 | I had that in mind all week , but I could n't see how I could afford it . ’ |
| 18 | I identified deeply with Hal 's predicament : there were many moments when I could feel my brain going — especially in Hawaii . |
| 19 | She 's not a bad sort but there are times when I could shake her . ’ |
| 20 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 21 | And if he ever decided to stay over when he had n't told me in advance , he 'd always ring and tell me where I could reach him . |
| 22 | I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels . |
| 23 | I was told there was n't one but was invited onto the executive where I could form my own women 's group . |
| 24 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Do you happen to know where I could find him now ? ’ |
| 26 | No , you know , if I could work somewhere in an office where I could use my car |
| 27 | Do n't know where I could put you , except in me bedroom , only if I did it might send me young man potty . |
| 28 | Roger quickly joined both ropes together and we descended the 300 feet to where I could follow our steps without difficulty to the foot of the crag . |
| 29 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 30 | And it was also a place where I could get my ship repaired by skilled persons whom I more or less trusted . |