Example sentences of "and i could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they sat in the kitchen , Jonadab glanced across at George and remarked , ‘ While we 're a bit slack afore haytime starts , Aah thought as 'ow thoo and me could deliver them two pairs of shires ti Stephen 's . ’ |
| 2 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |
| 3 | Well I put this on yesterday and I could smell it ! |
| 4 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 5 | You love it here , and I could make it possible for you to remain here . |
| 6 | ‘ maybe you and I could make it a bit bigger though . ’ |
| 7 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 8 | It suited me , because the yard kept an eye on Joanna , and I could leave my car there . |
| 9 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 10 | Momentarily staggered , she rose to the challenge , and I could feel her mind racing feverishly . |
| 11 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 12 | I pushed my hand into the mouth and I could feel it all right . |
| 13 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |
| 14 | ‘ You came , ’ he said , ‘ with your argumentative aggravating , adorable ways , and I could feel my invulnerability slipping away . ’ |
| 15 | In truth , the first word I ever spoke was ‘ Granpa ’ , the second ‘ farthing ’ , and I could repeat his whole sales patter word for word by my third birthday . |
| 16 | " And I could telephone you . |
| 17 | Does n't make any difference , and I could borrow my mum 's . |
| 18 | She said you could have kept this shut and I could tell her myself . |
| 19 | He was a good local caddie but Mr Palmer made him nervous , and I could tell he 'd sooner be with Gary player and a quiet life . |
| 20 | He came at me again and I could tell he was gonig to make another stab at a heavy masculine embrace . |
| 21 | My Mum looked down at me and I could tell she was just about to cry . |
| 22 | And I could tell you another story as well , I maybe used to pinch an apple out of one of the barrels . |
| 23 | Well they got these blacklegs and I could tell you a story about that as well . |
| 24 | Five more sentences and I could tell you which street you were born in . |
| 25 | No it 's not , I can sit there with a customer list and I could tell you who recommended who |
| 26 | Those things happened , I know that , and I could swear they happened to me . |
| 27 | Right below the press box he tried to get past Tambay and I could swear his wheels were n't more than inches from the pit-wall as he tried , and failed , to get by . |
| 28 | Well maybe you could have a quick word with him first and I could give you a call and then erm |
| 29 | Often I saw a clean-limbed beech , pale and slender , yet firm in its loftiness , that shook delicately arched branches at the top , and below held out an arm on which a form of schoolboys might have sat , — rising out of fine grass and printing its perfect outlines on the sky , — and I could fancy it enjoyed a life of pleasure that was health , beauty that was strength , thought that was repose . |
| 30 | When I was with him I was in a more or less permanent state of sexual excitement , and I could bring myself to orgasm just by looking at him , without the aid of hands . |