Example sentences of "[adv] i could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , if only I could win the first prize ! ’ breathed Angela . |
| 2 | Some temperaments hanker after blueprints — ‘ if only I could find the right formula I 'd triumph ’ . |
| 3 | Far , far away I could hear the slow , grinding sounds of traffic — but muffled , as if I were wearing earplugs . |
| 4 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 5 | Years later I could say the same of my old MGB . |
| 6 | From there I could see the other islands , and I could also see a boat , far out to sea . |