Example sentences of "i [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I could n't ask for a more caring and loving bunch of people . |
| 32 | ‘ Sure I could n't wish for a better husband for her . ’ |
| 33 | Obviously I could n't mime to a voice of seventeen years ago , no way on earth ! |
| 34 | For twenty minutes and more I could not think of a thing to write . |
| 35 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 36 | I could not live without a steam iron , or an electric kettle . |
| 37 | I could not get into a routine because there was nothing to get into a routine with ! |
| 38 | I 'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism . |
| 39 | ‘ I could just do with a cuppa , ’ he said brightly . |
| 40 | I could just do with a drink . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ If I could just come in a minute — ’ |
| 42 | Though I could probably squash in a crème caramel . " |
| 43 | ‘ I could only speak with a muffle . ’ |
| 44 | I could then apply for a position in the South with more certainty of success , with perhaps a choice of ports . |
| 45 | I could certainly do with a drink . |
| 46 | I could hardly wait for a return match . |
| 47 | I could really do with a bit of a sit down and summat to drink , so I go down the driveway into the station . |
| 48 | I wish I 'd got some cos I could really do with a hot drink . |
| 49 | Well perhaps I 'll have a look in town next Friday then , I could definitely do with a pair |
| 50 | The courage the British captain had shown on numerous dangerous patrols into enemy waters and the havoc he had wrought against shipping there was something I could never match in a hundred years . |
| 51 | It 's a form of monologue , of course , and I could never stand before a learned judge and be cross-questioned by counsel and state upon oath all that that tree says to me . |
| 52 | ‘ I could never go into a home , ’ said Aunt Louise quickly , and with such authority and finality that I dismissed homes from my mind . |
| 53 | ‘ I could never go into a home , ’ she said . |
| 54 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |
| 55 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |
| 56 | I could never work with a man like that and I told him so . |
| 57 | The Def Leppard singer , at No 10 with Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad , admits : ‘ I could never get into a plane and smash things up like some stars do . |
| 58 | Wish I 'd met her ten , twenty years ago when I could still pass as a red-blooded male . |
| 59 | Mind you , I s'pose I could always return as a newt … |
| 60 | But er I think erm the pound goes a lot further there , you 'll probably fe but I 'd probably feel like a millionaire in Jamaica |