Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 2 | If I was n't going to enjoy a plethora of gifts and compliments , at least I could soak myself in a great comforting pool of self-pity . |
| 3 | ‘ If you just ring them up you can not understand the problems they face so I thought this would be a good way that I could use myself as a focus on their work . ’ |
| 4 | Or I got a garden , I could occupy myself in the garden . |
| 5 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 6 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 7 | A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy . |
| 8 | She could busy herself in the garden till then . |
| 9 | She could lose herself in a place like this ; if not in the valley itself , then in some other part of the region . |
| 10 | As she danced she could lose herself in the movement . |
| 11 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 12 | Still , she could console herself with the knowledge that Luke , and all his complexities , would n't be impinging upon her life for much longer . |
| 13 | She tended to be over-indulgent with Victoria , partly because she could see herself in the child and partly too , in some perverse fashion , to make up for what she considered to be her own harsh upbringing under Jonadab 's strict rules . |
| 14 | Then her subtly coloured eyelids swept shut , blindness an instinctive need , as if by shutting Luke out of her vision she could barricade herself against the swoop of his mouth . |
| 15 | And in Edinburgh the appearance of It at the still-functioning Paperback Shop renewed the link with Haynes for people like Lloyd , who could regard themselves as the Americans ' ambassadors in the north . |
| 16 | But it would be desperately hard , in the Arab world , to stand up to a man who could portray himself as a ( literally ) world-defying champion of Palestinian rights . |
| 17 | But there was a lot of stuff in there if you could fit yourself into the what they 'd got . |
| 18 | ‘ Just think , ’ he told her , ‘ you could treat yourself to a trip down Bond Street and splurge on a few trinkets and some new clothes for your wardrobe . ’ |
| 19 | She fixed her hazel eyes on his and elaborated , smiling , ‘ You could treat yourself to a few trinkets with the change . ’ |
| 20 | So perhaps you could arrange yourselves in a semi-circle just round here . |
| 21 | If you plan to stay up on election night , you could sustain yourself in the small hours with freshly baked pizza . |
| 22 | In any event , you could find yourself with a substantial amount to invest . |
| 23 | If you can not find the cash , the beneficiaries can sell the shares to whoever they like — and , again , you could find yourself with an outsider on the board . |
| 24 | With so much of interest to discover and such a wealth of magnificent coast and countryside to explore , within even an hour or two of home you could find yourself in a beautiful new world . |
| 25 | You could find yourself in the ludicrous situation where you have to take them out of the country for half-an-hour and take them back in again . |
| 26 | I mean if if a woman undresses okay let's take a scenario okay Simon maybe er you know you could put yourself in the same situation |
| 27 | If we could shrink ourselves to the atomic scale , we would see almost endless rows of atoms , stretching to the horizon in straight lines — galleries of geometric repetition . |
| 28 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 29 | But still we kept saying if only we could see ourselves on the video , that would help us . |
| 30 | We are in an interesting position , where we could shoot ourselves in the foot — but we want to grow our own business , here in Newtonmore . ’ |