Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I could only make my exit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could just see my hand when I held it out . |
| 5 | I could just see my face in it . |
| 6 | I could just imagine my father jumping up and down on this argument , this need for meaning , for faith . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers . |
| 9 | I felt aggrieved at this because I had not worked with the sister during my placement , and could not imagine how she could possibly assess my work and capability . |
| 10 | At lunch I was sad and subdued , and I could hardly face my mother 's and father 's happy faces , or the rather more knowing glances of Aunt Lyallie , who I later discovered had put my mother wise to many things . |
| 11 | I felt I could hardly lift my arm to comb my hair it was such an effort ; but most of all I got so depressed knowing everything was piling up and I was n't doing anything about it , and soon I would n't be able to . |
| 12 | I could hardly contain my excitement . |
| 13 | I could hardly believe my luck . |
| 14 | With the election less than a fortnight away , I could hardly believe my luck . |
| 15 | My dear , I could hardly keep my patience . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public . |
| 17 | I could still do my job , but my heart was n't in the day-to-day scramble for the latest pictures . |
| 18 | ‘ My dear Handel , ’ he said , ‘ if you want to pay back what you owe him , you could always join my company , Clarrikers . |
| 19 | ‘ It was very comfortable , ’ he surprisingly recorded , ‘ and I could always keep my eye on the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 20 | I could also give my opinion of the way you 've behaved . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I could barely conceal my satisfaction – I felt we had ‘ arrived ’ . |
| 24 | I could never forget my grandfather . |
| 25 | As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him . |
| 26 | He made it clear he could never acknowledge my existence to his family and I did n't expect him to . |
| 27 | ‘ I could never turn my back on our home . |
| 28 | I waved frantically , but this time I could actually sense my body temperature falling rapidly with the physical exertion . |
| 29 | But I remember Puzznic very fondly as a game that I could actually get my head around ( it 's very flexible you know ) ; even a thicko like me can understand the concept of joining corresponding icons together . |