Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to smoke as much smack as I could lay me hands on . |
| 2 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone could offer me a million quid for Henry , but there would be no sale . |
| 4 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 5 | Looking at my diary after lunch , I realised it was MKM day and they might sell out before someone could get me a copy ! |
| 6 | ‘ Ye could gie me a wee bit . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was told , ’ Rab said , Winnie 's stinging remark , and it had stung him , ‘ that ye could fly me on a kite . ’ |
| 8 | Nobody could tell me its correct name and it was known simply by the Greek equivalent of ‘ night-bloom ’ . |
| 9 | Because nobody could tell me about sport , nobody could guide me , which is what I needed . |
| 10 | I 've often asked , but nobody could tell me for certain . ’ |
| 11 | Er but nobody could tell me for certain what it was that they intended to use it for , er but it was apparently not guaranteed that it would continue to be used er as a market hall . |
| 12 | I was a little afraid , but this was something really important ; nobody could make me get married after I had discovered something as strange as this . |
| 13 | I expect , cos when I came back from there nobody could understand me . |
| 14 | Nobody could find me now . |
| 15 | Nobody could see me now . |
| 16 | Because nobody could tell me about sport , nobody could guide me , which is what I needed . |
| 17 | Or somebody could tell me . |
| 18 | Perhaps I was showing too many teeth which could make me appear roguish and untrustworthy . |
| 19 | Is there an artist 's directory which could help me ? |
| 20 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 21 | I reassured myself that nothing could stop me keeping in touch with the women on a voluntary basis , provided they wished to remain friends . |
| 22 | But that evening nothing could touch me . |
| 23 | Besides , the way I feel now nothing could offend me . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If you invite me nothing could keep me away . ’ |
| 25 | Strong though my anxiety was to save him , nothing could force me to duck my head voluntarily beneath that stinking spate . |
| 26 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 27 | Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up . |
| 28 | ‘ No-one could accuse me of being a half-b-b-bottle man , ’ said Ricky . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems that I still have some friends in Swansea , ’ Edward said softly , ‘ no-one could convict me on such trumped-up evidence . |
| 30 | I asked if she could show me his works from the Twenties . |