Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] could go " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stared around , sweating , wishing I could go and lock myself in my nice safe ship . |
| 2 | The marquis lifted her from the saddle , feeling the warmth of her body against his own , wishing he could go on holding her for ever . |
| 3 | He lay awake through the night wishing he could go home or into the sitting room and watch a horror movie , and then , as the room paled with the threat of day , he drifted into an uneasy sleep , finally waking in full light with a foul taste in his mouth and the disjointed memory of a dream in which he was trapped in a lift dressed in women 's underwear and wondering how to explain it when the fire brigade finally came and rescued him . |
| 4 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 5 | We have n't that much experience of working with thirteen to fourteen year olds , so we have been collaborating closely with the teachers in devising what could go into each lecture . |
| 6 | He was involved in the anti-war movement , and worked briefly in community service before discovering you could go to Sussex University without any O levels , provided you had A levels . |
| 7 | He told her in no uncertain terms that his father , the Duke of Edinburgh had agreed that if , after five years , his marriage was not working he could go back to his bachelor habits . |
| 8 | choosing among alternative ways of providing care , anticipating what could go wrong and juggling resources in emergencies ; |