Example sentences of "i could [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst all the noise of London Bridge Station , I could sleep like the proverbial top . |
| 2 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 3 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 4 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
| 5 | I should be more encouraged if I could identify within the Labour party a consensus for the preservation of the Union . |
| 6 | I could tell from the blank embarrassment in Tom 's expression that she had not acknowledged him . |
| 7 | If gravity was strong , I could go to the top floor of the building and speed up my time . |
| 8 | About midday on 29th. the Navy in Malta suddenly asked me whether I could search along the Greek coast for the remnants of the Italian Fleet which was believed to be escaping northwards . |
| 9 | She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater . |
| 10 | ‘ I tell you , there are times when I could agree with the good doctor of Norwich , old Tom Browne , that it were better if we humans propagated in the manner of trees . |
| 11 | Dod dropped me in Hackney , two streets away from Stuart Street so I could call in the Chinese take-away on the way . |
| 12 | And er he told me I could start and if I could relieved from the other pit , so I went and saw the under-manager at , and I says , Aye , he says , you can go . |
| 13 | ‘ That season ’ , he reckons , ‘ I discovered I had something to offer ; that I could play with the big boys . |
| 14 | If it helps my blood pressure I could live with the cold |
| 15 | If I liked it , I could re-apply for the one-year programme , and if I did n't , I would only have wasted five months . |
| 16 | In fact , as far as I could judge from the old hearing system , the effect on Quigley was fairly stupendous . |
| 17 | Badly , that is , if you were the owner , for I could see from the outside that the shelves provided loads of blind spots for shoplifters well out of sight of the cash till . |
| 18 | I had to see Helen , After all , she was just over that hill which I could see from the top windows of the Grand . |
| 19 | Perhaps I could write to the hon. Gentleman . |