Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I could walk along the beach with you . |
| 3 | Maybe if I could make myself invisible , then I could walk down a street without feeling on trial for the way I look . |
| 4 | Ger Van Vliet , a Dutch botanist who heads the EC scientific working group on Cites , says wild orchids are easy to steal : ‘ I could walk into a forest in Sabah ( Borneo ) and take away the last remaining specimens of a rare species in one suitcase . ’ |
| 5 | There is on record a confession of Cobden-Sanderson 's , who said of a failure to bind a copy of Tennyson 's In Memoriam to his satisfaction : ‘ I could spit upon the book , throw it out of the window , into the fire , upon the ground and grind it with my heel . ‘ |
| 6 | I had only to make it to Dover and then I could sleep on the ferry to France . |
| 7 | I mean whether I 'll ever work offshore again 's another thing , but I would like to try going offshore I mean then again I mean I reckon I could work offshore no problem at all , but whether I could sleep on the platform is a completely different matter . |
| 8 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
| 9 | I mean , I could sleep in the lounge . |
| 10 | I repeat what I have always said : 175 is the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the number required after the transitional period to carry out the duties that I have described . |
| 11 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 12 | ‘ I could pay for a hotel , of course , but he 'd find me . ’ |
| 13 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 14 | Er but perhaps I could talk about the Centre , which is not . |
| 15 | Before I could protest at the misrepresentation , Mary said , ‘ Oh , no , that 's not so at all — that 's a very unscientific remark , if you do n't mind my saying so , sir ! |
| 16 | Do n't look at me like that , it was the best I could do on the spur of the moment . ’ |
| 17 | ’ It 's no exactly my own idea of good taste and I could do wi' a suit that 's a better fit , but beggars can nae be choosers , as they say . |
| 18 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about the accident . |
| 19 | and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance . |
| 20 | I could do with a friend . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I could do with a whisky , ’ I said . |
| 22 | I could do with a clock up in our bedroom . |
| 23 | I want you to pick up your phone and call me now cos I could do with a couple of phone calls so pick it up now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 24 | I could do with a couple of those . |
| 25 | I could do with a drink . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Stupid bloody licensing laws , ’ spat Billy , ‘ I could do with a drink . |
| 27 | I could do with a drink … ‘ |
| 28 | ‘ I could do with a drink , though . ’ |
| 29 | I could do with a drink . ’ |
| 30 | I could do with a drink . ’ |