Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , at the most all I could do was bring whoever did it to trial . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps if I did n't know you so intimately I could be convinced , but I know your sexuality and your demands — ’ |
| 3 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 4 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 5 | Not badly , just enough so I could n't focus properly . |
| 6 | from sort of eight o'clock so I could |
| 7 | I 've been concentrating on my technique , so soon I could try working straight on to the plate . |
| 8 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |
| 9 | I was somewhere in the middle , jog-trotting laboriously with the rest and wondering how much longer I could keep going . |
| 10 | so still I could hear each set of ripples |
| 11 | Then in the end we came to a river so wide I could n't see the other bank ; I felt frightened and thought this must be the end of the race , and I wanted to stop , but Father plunged straight in without looking at me so I had to plunge in too . |
| 12 | Perhaps now I could make my own bread ! |
| 13 | Yes , yes well as I say , you 're coming into the shop and I do n't know what was in now I could n't tell you , but anyway |
| 14 | Only even I could n't have known there 'd be nowhere to stay but at the Hall ! |
| 15 | Father Jankowski looked at me so kindly I could not tell him . |
| 16 | Said only the once , but in memory so deep I could analyse each syllable . |
| 17 | I walked rapidly round the room , my thoughts rising so fast I could hardly understand them . |
| 18 | So maybe I could tempt you to settle for a mere lifetime with me , Caroline ? ’ |
| 19 | Eventually I had the other repeat to make the three parts , so then I could make harmonies by playing along with the tape . ’ |
| 20 | Now if we could get down there I could ma what did I tell you ? |
| 21 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |
| 22 | She was breathing so quietly I could hardly see the rise and fall of her breasts , and those lips of hers looking fuller than I remembered , the mouth wider , and the line of the teeth just showing very white . |
| 23 | No something so no , sort of , start at lunchtime anyway so I could n't record any lunchtime . |
| 24 | Well not even I could heard them I was in the second row . |
| 25 | Once Anne had accepted the fact that I was n't gon na work in the foreseeable future , and it was her choice that we stay , cos I gave her a clear choice , it was either move away where I could get work , or stay and suffer the wages of the dole like you know . |
| 26 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
| 27 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 28 | He said there was so much stuff up there I could n't reel off what they 've got because he said they got everything . |
| 29 | Well what I what I did here , to work it out so I could come up to some sort of value , is I said I have n't had time to chuck these back on the screen yet to start again |
| 30 | I stopped silly-mid-scone , eyes flying saucer-wide and leaped in as only I could . |