Example sentences of "i could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell my students during my evolution and behaviour course not to use the F word and the F word is fitness and I advise them strongly not to , and if I could ban it I would . |
| 2 | So I had to try to prove to them that I could manage him . |
| 3 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 4 | I 've never been in one but I 've read so much about how to do it I 'm sure I could manage it . ’ |
| 5 | I told 'im I was gettin' over me wounds an' 'e said the work was 'ard an' did I fink I could manage it . |
| 6 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 7 | I I do n't think I could manage it . |
| 8 | A something I something A Oh , I could 've you that |
| 9 | I used to smoke as much smack as I could lay me hands on . |
| 10 | I could walk you know . |
| 11 | But before I could fetch it , he told me to come near him . |
| 12 | I wanted to see if I could experience it . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I could experience it . |
| 14 | ‘ I do wish you 'd make some effort to grow up , ’ said my mother before she could stop herself , for she did n't want her future son-in-law to know how much I could irritate her . |
| 15 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 16 | And if I could bring him to reconciliation with the king , without more bloodshed and without revenge , I would count it a good deed both for England and Wales . |
| 17 | I could bring them round to you later . ’ |
| 18 | I thought that way I could bring them together . |
| 19 | " I could bring it up to you , sir . |
| 20 | I 've got a bit on that , if you want I could bring it up now while you 're talking about it , I will . |
| 21 | I could bring it in it is . |
| 22 | Millie now turned to Ben , and he shrugged his shoulders , saying , ‘ It 's up to you ; but I could bring you back tomorrow , if you would like that ? ’ |
| 23 | Anyway , she told me to bring someone so I phoned and asked if I could bring you . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps if I asked Uncle Willi , I could bring you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The tall one , mind , the one with his hands all over me — on my shoulders , actually , so I could lead him — well , he 's a bit luckier . |
| 26 | If I could lead you from that paragraph on page three fifty over to page three six four page three six four , one two three , four paragraphs from the top it 's ab it 's the second of two paragraphs that begins the Board affirms the church 's th that Christ teaches that marriage is special and divorce is not the way he would wish for his people and then this sentence no-one would wish to condens condemn someone to stay in a marriage which is beyond redeeming . |
| 27 | ‘ Then suddenly I just could n't take it any longer — the knowledge that the only effect I had on you was sexual , the only way I could influence you was physically , whereas you loved Jones , as I thought ; your relationship with him was emotional … |
| 28 | You might think , I could marry him and teach him . |
| 29 | Those things happened , I know that , and I could swear they happened to me . |
| 30 | I could swear I saw it sizzle as it ate through the varnish . |