Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I could never become well-educated just by attending old Mrs Wopsle 's evening school , so I asked Mr Wopsle 's cousin Biddy to teach me everything she knew . |
| 2 | ‘ Even while I was speaking I realised I could well turn the tables with that . |
| 3 | Anyway , I realised I could never find that awful wool in that dreadful dirty mustard colour . |
| 4 | ‘ No matter how hard I tried I could never reach your standards . |
| 5 | But I found I could just sit down and play by ear . |
| 6 | and I told you could always pop in . |
| 7 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 8 | I suggested that he might like to go and have a talk with his crew , I did not want to send him back to his squadron , but with a new navigator I believed he could eventually forge a good Pathfinding crew . |
| 9 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 10 | He had returned from Addis Ababa two days before , apparently cured , but his throat had now flared up again and when I arrived he could hardly speak . |
| 11 | At first I saw nothing , then as I watched I could just discern a faint nodding of the head . |
| 12 | Therefore I felt I could just mention them but not go into depth . |
| 13 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 14 | I was always so tired I never wanted to go out — I felt I could never look nice , anyway . |
| 15 | I felt I could hardly lift my arm to comb my hair it was such an effort ; but most of all I got so depressed knowing everything was piling up and I was n't doing anything about it , and soon I would n't be able to . |
| 16 | Even in 1982 , I felt I could hardly substantiate a fifth-century occupation without a scrap of evidence . |
| 17 | I knew I could never inflict her as a mother on Kirsty , but I was totally trapped by the promise I 'd made . |
| 18 | I told myself I 'd have an abortion , although I knew I could never go through with it , and I was so relieved when my period came . |
| 19 | I knew I could never live with them again , but I thought … |
| 20 | I pretended to despise such modern aids , but that was really a defensive reaction because I knew I could never afford such frills for Masquerade . |
| 21 | It was none of my business , and I knew he could still feel the cold stone of that floor at the hotel while death hammered insistently just above his head . |
| 22 | Okay I think we 'll as I thought we could actually start the discussion |
| 23 | Sometimes I thought they could actually see these people , as they talked . |
| 24 | I thought you could probably take both . |
| 25 | I thought you could still cuddle . |
| 26 | so and I thought I could just leave him sort of like a message that was subtle enough |
| 27 | ‘ Initially I thought I could just pack up my son and bring him here , ’ she says . |
| 28 | When I think of my previous existence — of all I thought I could reasonably expect of the rest of my life , an allowed place at the extreme corner of someone 's drawing-room carpet , a Servant 's garret or no better , I give thanks for every little thing , which is unspeakably dear to me . |
| 29 | I thought I could best do this at the Foreign Office , since in the aftermath of Suez so many dangerous tangles remained to be unravelled and so many ruptured friendships to be mended . |
| 30 | I should have reported it first , but I thought I could always plead urgency if I was disciplined again , and I could n't take the risk of being denied access . ’ |