Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] i could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 2 | As with other books I have collaborated on , I was particularly fortunate in having a co-author with whom I could work closely and well , though not without disagreements . |
| 3 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
| 4 | Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return . |
| 5 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
| 6 | Well I used to cycle from Gedling to Apsley , me debit was at Apsley and I used to have to cycle from there to Apsley and I used to take bit of food an and bread and cheese and pieces of anything I could pick up in me pocket , and I dare n't come home till I 'd got some business . |
| 7 | I 've been racking my brains for what I could have done , then it struck me . |
| 8 | He said you were a gentleman who 'd pay a fair price for anything I could tell you . ’ |
| 9 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 10 | This contract was , perhaps , the only evidence from which I could deduce Helmut 's hurt . |
| 11 | To me , as to so many others , David was a friend on whom I could rely . |
| 12 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 13 | I began to see ways in which I could improve . |
| 14 | I knew Derek really enjoyed our trips and was only kidding , but I was thinking of ways in which I could raise more money to pay my share . |
| 15 | There was no one of my age to whom I could talk , and I did n't want to venture out any more . |
| 16 | I have never read of any firm in Britain from which I could purchase a light box . |
| 17 | I have never read of any firm in Britain from which I could purchase a light box . |
| 18 | Out of the drone of insect life around us I could distinguish the sound of an aeroplane engine . |
| 19 | Being married and having young children , the range of chef 's hours available within contract catering was , of course , attractive ; but the main incentives were the obvious routes by which I could move upwards on joining High Table . ’ |
| 20 | He saluted the coach and we drove through the gates and up a hill past the enormous parade ground at the far end of which I could see the Monument aux-Morts , the memorial to every dead legionnaire . |
| 21 | When I said ‘ English ’ he started on some obscure anecdote in which I could make out little except the name ‘ Margaret ’ and the repetition of ‘ kato , kato ’ , ‘ down , down ’ . |
| 22 | I could visualise , as we sat under the rattan shade of the veranda , passing a perfect life on the island — a comfortable house , a garden in which I could grow everything I needed , enough fish to eat . |
| 23 | This particular airfield had been chosen for the test-flight because it was surrounded by open country , and there in front of me were fields from which I could choose . |
| 24 | I checked the map against what I could see . |
| 25 | The interviews gave me plenty of insights , but there was no way in which I could tell in what ways the Moonies might differ from other people of a similar age and from a similar background . |
| 26 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 27 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 28 | In front of me I could see the dark shape of a summer-house and I moved towards it . |
| 29 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 30 | Such was the austerity of his habits that it never entered his head himself to have any kind of formal dinner in which I could join . |