Example sentences of "could [vb infin] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're stronger than I am , and I know you could make me do … ’ she lowered her lashes in embarrassment ‘ … things … that I do n't want to do . |
| 2 | ‘ Michael could make me laugh very easily , ’ said Cossins . |
| 3 | Your charms could make me forget the world . |
| 4 | Perhaps I was showing too many teeth which could make me appear roguish and untrustworthy . |
| 5 | I was a little afraid , but this was something really important ; nobody could make me get married after I had discovered something as strange as this . |
| 6 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 7 | He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four . |
| 8 | I said that if she would leave it with the bill at her hall-porter 's desk , she could trust me to take it and leave the money without attempting to see her . |
| 9 | Before he could speak I introduced myself as a friend of the family . |
| 10 | ‘ It could send me to jail . |
| 11 | have a chat to him about what you could do I said do n't worry I said . |
| 12 | Jesus , there 'd be so many things I could do I do n't even know where to start thinking about them . |
| 13 | Yeah you could do I do n't think |
| 14 | The best thing one could do I think is to go back to past trends . |
| 15 | I mean I could do I think they 're fascinating and important — but I would prefer instead actually to talk about Darwinism Darwin as a biologist , rather than Darwin as a philosopher or as a influencer of morals and religious beliefs and so on . |
| 16 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |
| 17 | I could do I suppose . |
| 18 | I could swear I saw it sizzle as it ate through the varnish . |
| 19 | I could swear I see it breathing . |
| 20 | As far as I could remember I 'd rowed ashore in a fairly direct line from Joanna to the beach . |
| 21 | I am sure you would be amused if you could see me struggling to do such a basic ‘ computer thing ’ as merely use it as a word processor ! |
| 22 | But I could see I had lost his attention . |
| 23 | GUIL : I could see I had . |
| 24 | When she took off the glasses I could see I 'd overstepped . |
| 25 | They could see I loved it . |
| 26 | I reassured myself that nothing could stop me keeping in touch with the women on a voluntary basis , provided they wished to remain friends . |
| 27 | I used to smoke as much smack as I could lay me hands on . |
| 28 | Strong though my anxiety was to save him , nothing could force me to duck my head voluntarily beneath that stinking spate . |
| 29 | You have no it was that they were a bit big were n't they anyway I 'm sure we could possibly get it out you could try I suppose . |
| 30 | ‘ You could have me followed . ’ |