Example sentences of "i could [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could also give my opinion of the way you 've behaved . ’ |
| 2 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 3 | I could also pick his feet out and deal with the foot-rot which was starting to set in . |
| 4 | He knew I could well hold my own . |
| 5 | A virgin … my God , I could barely pull my shattered wits together . |
| 6 | But in the clinging sand I could barely lift my feet . |
| 7 | I could barely conceal my satisfaction – I felt we had ‘ arrived ’ . |
| 8 | It was a long while before I could even change her nappy , and putting clothes on , you had to disconnect all the wires , put the clothes on and put them all back . |
| 9 | The , for example , where I worked I had to bale out you know in the morning about thirty pails of water , you know before I could even see my footboard . |
| 10 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 11 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 12 | I could just hear his lusty yells over the whisper of the grass in the wind . |
| 13 | God , if I could just get my hands on the bastards who did that to your house ! |
| 14 | If I could just add my thanks to the officers substantial piece of work , which is , I hope going to be used by many members to come for the next year . |
| 15 | I could just see my hand when I held it out . |
| 16 | I could just see my face in it . |
| 17 | If I could just take your address . ’ |
| 18 | I could just imagine my father jumping up and down on this argument , this need for meaning , for faith . |
| 19 | As zero hour was reached , and punctually to the very minute our barrage lifted , through my glasses I could clearly observe our skirmishers leave their trenches and move steadily forward ; here and there I could even distinguish the smoke puffs of bursting bombs . |
| 20 | And here 's me with one eye and here 's I could fucking see our William , here 's me round the back then me I 'm away in here to waken up , fuck ten past seven |
| 21 | I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’ |
| 22 | And since the frozen peas and firm bandaging were applied by the fair hands of a comely maiden , I began to think that perhaps I could reasonably update my views on the ankle , Eros-wise . |
| 23 | We can play chess and I could probably correct your anti-materialist views on the coal industry in a matter of moments . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Why — because , though at any other time I could perhaps let my feelings have their head , this time , for a reason I simply was n't seeing then , I just knew that it could not be like that with you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If I could perhaps have your address for delivery please , Miss Milligan , ’ the chief assistant requested . |
| 26 | I could only make my exit . |
| 27 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd tied a black scarf , or a stocking , or something over his face , and I could only see his eyes between that and his hat brim . |
| 29 | I could only see his eyes shining in the light of the fire . |
| 30 | I no longer drank black coffee nor smoked , so I could only chew my almonds and sip my herb tea . |