Example sentences of "[conj] i could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you could find me a garret somewhere near you , where I could live for the next three months , I could finish it , and perhaps get it Published . |
| 2 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |
| 3 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 4 | I wish that I could go into the matter in more detail . |
| 5 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 6 | I reached the desolate head of the valley ( few flowers here ) and decided to attempt a crossing to the other side of the beck so that I could return by the path descending from Black Sail Pass . |
| 7 | However , that is not an accusation that I could level at the Leader of the Opposition , as he has not found time to say anything at all about the environment — true or false . |
| 8 | Keith Thomas pressed a button and a huge door clanked upwards so that I could peer into the heart of the furnace . |
| 9 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 10 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 11 | This also meant that I could scrub against the painting support and even use a wet brush loaded with water to lift out partially dried acrylic colour . |
| 12 | I picked him up gently , just to move him back so that I could look into the box … |
| 13 | There 's so much more that I could say about the development of Switchboard . |
| 14 | ‘ That season ’ , he reckons , ‘ I discovered I had something to offer ; that I could play with the big boys . |
| 15 | Sometimes I feel that I could get to the point where I 'd let her get on the bus [ transport to day care ] in the morning and then ring them up later and say ‘ Do n't bring her back because I wo n't let her in ’ … |
| 16 | As for the little animals , the gerbils , white mice and hamsters , they had to die their muddy little ploppy deaths so that I could get to the Skull of Old Saul . |
| 17 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 18 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 19 | For it was only by studying the precise rake of extra-long pans , the trajectory of tracking shots and the jejune emotional appeal of the jump-cut , that I could add to the repertoire of my own internal shoots . |
| 20 | I had problems at first , but I have had more help from your magazine than I could get from the instruction book especially with the Fair Isle necklines . |
| 21 | He had me educated so I could speak for the Romanies of today — and of the future . |
| 22 | I shouted , desperately trying to turn my horse 's head so I could flee like the wind . |
| 23 | Dod dropped me in Hackney , two streets away from Stuart Street so I could call in the Chinese take-away on the way . |
| 24 | At the A227 turn-off I switched off the cassette-player so I could concentrate on the terrain . |
| 25 | I checked my watch and stood up so I could look across the Paddock . |
| 26 | I remember I had to get some photos so I could get into the swimming pool for nothing . |
| 27 | I took a step forward so I could see over the edge . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | My figures were the best estimates that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the numbers required to carry out the policy that I have laid before the House . |
| 30 | The concerns about what to wear , the latest haircuts and how to deal with acne were subjects I knew well — and I could identify with the girls ' interests too . |