Example sentences of "i could [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I could walk along the beach with you . |
| 3 | There is on record a confession of Cobden-Sanderson 's , who said of a failure to bind a copy of Tennyson 's In Memoriam to his satisfaction : ‘ I could spit upon the book , throw it out of the window , into the fire , upon the ground and grind it with my heel . ‘ |
| 4 | I had only to make it to Dover and then I could sleep on the ferry to France . |
| 5 | I mean whether I 'll ever work offshore again 's another thing , but I would like to try going offshore I mean then again I mean I reckon I could work offshore no problem at all , but whether I could sleep on the platform is a completely different matter . |
| 6 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
| 7 | I mean , I could sleep in the lounge . |
| 8 | I repeat what I have always said : 175 is the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the number required after the transitional period to carry out the duties that I have described . |
| 9 | My figures were the best estimates that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the numbers required to carry out the policy that I have laid before the House . |
| 10 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 11 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 12 | Yep the only difference between the two , is the colours If I could talk to the animals walk with the animals , sing and dance and squawk with the animals ah la la la la ! |
| 13 | Er but perhaps I could talk about the Centre , which is not . |
| 14 | Before I could protest at the misrepresentation , Mary said , ‘ Oh , no , that 's not so at all — that 's a very unscientific remark , if you do n't mind my saying so , sir ! |
| 15 | Do n't look at me like that , it was the best I could do on the spur of the moment . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about the accident . |
| 17 | and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance . |
| 18 | I think I could do with the rest . ’ |
| 19 | Mark discharged himself , came on to the film set and proceeded to tell me what I could do with the part , the film and the clinic . ’ |
| 20 | I could do with the company and Mrs Manners has still got enough turkey to feed the third world and the poor Albanians . |
| 21 | I could do with the company . |
| 22 | ’ I could do with the rent ! ’ |
| 23 | Again I I showed all due diligence I could do in the situation . |
| 24 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 25 | I reached the desolate head of the valley ( few flowers here ) and decided to attempt a crossing to the other side of the beck so that I could return by the path descending from Black Sail Pass . |
| 26 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 27 | As far as I could gather from the producer , my job would be to record this deterioration and then , without sounding too pious or moralistic , point out its implications for people who drink at work or when they 're driving . |
| 28 | I wondered if I could arrange for the wreck to be taken back — er — back home . |
| 29 | In the circumstances , if I could detect from the statute any statutory purpose or intention pointing to one construction rather than the other , I would certainly adopt it . |
| 30 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |