Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same is true of the altogether exceptional recording , which held my concentration so effortlessly that I could hardly believe that nearly a whole hour had passed when I emerged elated at the other end . |
| 2 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 3 | Before our friend had finished telling us his news I got on my bicycle and rode to the cemetery as fast as I could . |
| 4 | I wanted to get away from the scene as quickly as I could . ’ |
| 5 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 6 | Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece . |
| 7 | I went to my room as often as I could , and then after a week I went to the local Employment Exchange . |
| 8 | There was not much of this kind of nonsense as far as I could tell by eavesdropping around the room , but there were cries of anguish when the prices of some of the wines were announced . |
| 9 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 10 | So , before setting off on my search , I resolved to check the existing evidence as critically as I could . |
| 11 | I tried to answer the King as well as I could , but he did not think our system was a good one . |
| 12 | But after putting the case as powerfully as I could — including some speculation about the alternative of an inefficient and out-of-date inspectorate — the point was conceded and the money found . |
| 13 | The experience as far as I could gather never disappoints : because of its own unique qualities , but also because of the attention we all pay it . |
| 14 | I set up another three Slammers , pouring the lime juice and tequila together so that I could cut mine to about half the strength I was giving them . |
| 15 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
| 16 | Blood from my arm came streaming back into my face , in spite of the fact that I was holding the stump as tightly as I could . |
| 17 | Fairclough played a Batty-esque defensive midfield role as far as I could tell , marking Shearer might have been a better idea , though he did an OK job as it was . |
| 18 | I went back to my room , trying to forget about my brother ; I wanted to get to bed early so that I could be up in time for the naming ceremony of the new catapult . |
| 19 | He put the magazine down and stared into space over my head , smiling wisely as I cleared my throat and flapped the hem of my dressing-gown as unobtrusively as I could . |
| 20 | I had gone out into the garden , closing the scullery door as quietly as I could . |
| 21 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 22 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 23 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
| 24 | I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket . |
| 25 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 26 | Sitting alone in that darkened little room , I could sense the shadow of death lying over the hospital as tangibly as I could see the shadows of night in the corners of the room and outside the window . |
| 27 | I did n't understand Ward 's behaviour , so I just concentrated on getting out of the city as fast as I could . |
| 28 | In fact I have gone further and said a " mixed " crew was , in my view , infinitely better than , any " national " crew , one of the reasons , possibly , for the high proportion of Commonwealth crews was my established policy of spreading my selection net as widely as I could in view of the poor cooperation of the Groups ; to this end I literally plagued the various HQs in London — the Aussies at Kodak House etc . |
| 29 | ‘ We made the front page ! ’ he exulted , holding the rag up so that I could see the headline : ‘ WOMAN DIES AT THEATRE ROYAL . |
| 30 | I would spend all my time out there if I could . |