Example sentences of "i could [vb infin] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe if I 'd been encouraged then to find pleasure and personal fulfilment instead of pain and resentment I could manage to beat the under-11s on those final few metres . |
| 2 | I only wish I could have hit the third . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I could have killed the bloody swine ! ’ |
| 4 | I could have done that or I could have done the instrumental album . |
| 5 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 6 | I could have recorded the mysterious Mr Archer 's phone calls and had them directed to the office while I was there . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I could have fielded the best striker in the world against Coventry last weekend . |
| 8 | In erm Romans chapter three and verse twenty seven it says that er Jesus died for our sins and I 'd just like to leave this thought with you , that n er just like me , when I could have died the other week in that plane crash , that none of us knows how long we 've got on this life and , however long or short it is , there 's no time like the present to get right with God if you , if you are n't and the only way to do that is through Jesus . |
| 9 | If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them . |
| 10 | Well I could have spent the whole week . |
| 11 | Oh I could have spent the whole week , I just , I just , I could of spent five afternoons in Ipswich , would of done or Norwich |
| 12 | ‘ I could have opened the outside latch in the same way . ’ |