Example sentences of "[pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It soon became clear that I could no longer rely on friends for help with everyday chores like shopping and housework when I needed it . |
| 2 | It soon became clear that I could no longer rely on friends for help with everyday chores like shopping and housework when I needed it . |
| 3 | It soon became clear that I could no longer rely on friends for help with everyday chores , like shopping and housework , when I needed it . |
| 4 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 5 | Sometimes I thought I could hear the noise of the rapids . |
| 6 | I could never rise so high . |
| 7 | Later still , the analyst suggests that Fraser may want to offer reparation , by writing this book , for the guilt he had felt in relation to his father , and Fraser asks : ‘ For wanting to destroy him so I could have my mother to myself ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was able to soar up , to fly , I could rock in the air like that balloon , I could fly away with it , choose any of the four points of the compass , but I remained where I was , I stopped above this small , painful , blessed piece of earth . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was able to soar up , to fly , I could rock in the air like that balloon , I could fly away with it , choose any of the four points of the compass , but I remained where I was , I stopped above this small , painful , blessed piece of earth . ’ |
| 10 | The friend felt Levi had survived ‘ so that I could bear witness ’ . |
| 11 | I wanted to see if I could experience it . |
| 12 | He was in a bit of a state , I could n't believe it . |
| 13 | I could afford the naked women but not the naked scepticism , the carping and sniping and the public washing of dirty linen which represents freedom to an English editor . |
| 14 | I could be taught . |
| 15 | It would be sitting at the pictures if I could have the money to do it fill time . |
| 16 | I could borrow . |
| 17 | I could n't afford the fares into town as well as a reasonable seat for sitting in . |
| 18 | I could read . |
| 19 | I could read a lot . |
| 20 | I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who … |
| 21 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 22 | It was all terrifically exciting and when I got the parts I could hardly believe it . |
| 23 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 24 | Endless , he wrote , because I could see no end to them and because I could envisage no beginning . |
| 25 | Endless , he wrote , because I could see no end to them and because I could envisage no beginning . |
| 26 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 27 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 28 | I knew what I wanted , but I could n't find it . |
| 29 | I could not formulate it to myself then but I felt the uniqueness . |
| 30 | If I could only resolve that lower right hand panel though , he wrote , or even decide once and for all to leave it empty , then perhaps the boredom would disappear . |