Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let her stroke me so that I could analyze the scent . |
| 2 | He gave it to me so that I could come in and out to you as I like . |
| 3 | That 's why she would sometimes sign the order over to me so that I could put it through my account — otherwise she had to queue up at the post office , as I said . ’ |
| 4 | It was one your uncle David brought up for me so that I could get take it to pieces to make the car we 'd got better . |
| 5 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 6 | He agreed and said he would train me so that I could take the necessary exams . |
| 7 | He dragged me away for I could have killed Scawsby on the spot and anyone else who tried to interfere . |
| 8 | She really believed I would put up with anything she threw at me just so I could possess her . |
| 9 | I like not your being in the Tower — it troubles me more than I could say ! ’ |
| 10 | I would n't trust you further than I could throw you — though that 'd be a fair way , you 're flimsy enough . |
| 11 | I want you to pick up your phone and call me now cos I could do with a couple of phone calls so pick it up now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 12 | They had both been so kind , caring and helpful during the whole of Nigel 's illness — staying with him so that I could get out to shop and have a break , taking him to his hospital appointments because their car was bigger and therefore more comfortable for him , and in dozens of other , smaller but no less important ways . |
| 13 | I let myself think I might adopt him — oh , not altogether , but just so that he could come and stay with me sometimes and I could do things for him . |
| 14 | And how it fits into your life , I have the feeling that er if I could fix it so that I could do it sort of in the house , by the way , I could , I could do certain things and I could stick to them , and I would see that I 'd do them . |
| 15 | I was doing it so that I could have the pleasure of apologizing to such a lovely woman . ’ |
| 16 | I knew exactly where to stop it so that I could get off and go down the ladder , sneak a cup of tea or something . |
| 17 | He added , ‘ But I would chuck it immediately if I could get into the army . ’ |
| 18 | We will take it steadily and I could see him as a Festival hope . |
| 19 | He came at me again and I could tell he was gonig to make another stab at a heavy masculine embrace . |
| 20 | And him being a lawyer and all , we cooked up a grand scheme between us so that I could go back to Ireland with my pride intact . ’ |