Example sentences of "i could [verb] it " 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 | I 've never been in one but I 've read so much about how to do it I 'm sure I could manage it . ’ |
| 3 | I told 'im I was gettin' over me wounds an' 'e said the work was 'ard an' did I fink I could manage it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I I do n't think I could manage it . |
| 6 | But before I could fetch it , he told me to come near him . |
| 7 | I wanted to see if I could experience it . |
| 8 | ‘ I wish I could experience it . |
| 9 | " I could bring it up to you , sir . |
| 10 | I 've got a bit on that , if you want I could bring it up now while you 're talking about it , I will . |
| 11 | I could bring it in it is . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I could picture it clearly , a big number 6 made of all the colours in the tube . |
| 14 | I had to go over there just to see how dockers worked over there , to see if I could improve it here , well I could n't because dockers would n't do what they , they were doing in Holland . |
| 15 | I could extend it . ’ |
| 16 | You love it here , and I could make it possible for you to remain here . |
| 17 | I thought I could make it on my own here , but I 'm not so certain now . |
| 18 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I could make it werf yer while , ’ she said fluttering her eyelashes at him . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 22 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 23 | When I could make it , I got up and made for the nearest shelter . |
| 24 | ‘ maybe you and I could make it a bit bigger though . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I could make it your business . ’ |
| 26 | But , I I do n't really think I could make it any clearer , but you need to , perhaps take it home and go through it again , and think about it and see if you can understand it , you know , in the quiet of your own bedroom , plus is a very useful time to try and learn things . |
| 27 | Well c I could make it erm nine sixteenth if you like if it 's |
| 28 | I could make it eleven o'clock if necessary |
| 29 | Or I could make it into a puppet . |
| 30 | Did n't think I could make it . |