Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] i could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in opposite camps , and he could no more appreciate my line of reasoning than I could see his point of view , and finally we parted . |
| 2 | ‘ I left the car in Parson 's Green and came in by Underground so I could hold your hand all the way back . ’ |
| 3 | You say they 've got some sort of guidance , perhaps through the Magistrates ' Association , or maybe through some local starting point tariff if I could put it that way . |
| 4 | I would like green eyes if I could have them but it 's just a passing thought , not a real obsession . |
| 5 | So Herbie did n't try and jump in the car before I could lift him and trying to get Audrey in with her stiff leg . |
| 6 | Richard was out of the car before I could open my door . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted a sport where I could give my all , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 8 | With the TV cameras there , Julian Wilson asked Mr Webber if I could pop her over the fence . |
| 9 | As we 're so poor , it would be an advantage if I could marry someone with money . " |
| 10 | Oh that 's erm ah yes , I should try to use the calculator if I could find it on the machine ! |
| 11 | Dholuo was the language and I knew I was an encumbrance until I could make myself understood . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Myself , three daughter , — Frances , Rosemary and Catherine — and one son , Michael ( plus a length of clothes-line to serve as a lead until I could decide what kind of proper lead I 'd need ) . |
| 14 | And Lawrence confirmed yesterday : ‘ I would not discount making a move if I could get him for something like £700,000 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 16 | I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months . |
| 17 | I told him I had planned to take him to lunch but he said he could n't wait as he had some business to attend to , but he 'd be in a pub called the Banker if I could pick him up about three . |
| 18 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 19 | But I summoned all my German and asked the maestro if I could do it myself . |
| 20 | I promised him I 'd pass it on to his relatives if I could find them , anyway keep it safe in case he managed to get out too . |
| 21 | I would n't give him the time of day if I could help it . |
| 22 | How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers . |
| 23 | ‘ Mummy , ’ Matilda said , ‘ would you mind if I ate my supper in the dining-room so I could read my book ? ’ |
| 24 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 25 | My Lord if I could question it . |
| 26 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 27 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's still cross with me and the atmosphere is quite unpleasant , so I asked Iris if I could join you . |
| 29 | Do you think you could ask Pepe if I could meet him ? |
| 30 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |