Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at this stage I could manage without it , without breaking the overall aim of carrying my own food and water . |
| 2 | Every weekend that they came to visit me would end in tears , and I was fourteen before I could manage without them , and before I stopped kissing my father goodnight . |
| 3 | But I knew I could manage to stagger to my feet and find fresh kindling . |
| 4 | She was willing to give everything up , but we talked it through and I said I could manage on my own . |
| 5 | This meant that we had to find somewhere I could manage on my own and that was centrally located , because I could not walk far . |
| 6 | I suppose I could manage on my own , but — ’ |
| 7 | All I could manage in return was a sickly smile and a feeble , ‘ Thank you , Ma'am . ’ |
| 8 | " How pretty , " was the best I could manage in my present mood . |
| 9 | ‘ Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf ? ’ |
| 10 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 11 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I could walk along the beach with you . |
| 13 | Maybe if I could make myself invisible , then I could walk down a street without feeling on trial for the way I look . |
| 14 | Sometimes I did n't even need it at all I could walk about shopping and everything . |
| 15 | Ger Van Vliet , a Dutch botanist who heads the EC scientific working group on Cites , says wild orchids are easy to steal : ‘ I could walk into a forest in Sabah ( Borneo ) and take away the last remaining specimens of a rare species in one suitcase . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I wish I could walk at least part of it , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 17 | I was showing this off in my first week — wishing I could walk on my hands too , like my father — when I broke the bed 's cast-iron frame . |
| 18 | ‘ Two months before the bullying started an appraisal seemed to say I could walk on water . |
| 19 | The first day I could walk on my own I walked out . |
| 20 | I could walk for ever with your arm around me ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I could walk across there and kill him very slowly , ’ Stok said . |
| 22 | I could walk like this for ever . |
| 23 | They would sometimes say , ‘ If only I could walk like you . ’ |
| 24 | I could benefit from its charity work and I could contribute to it too . |
| 25 | How could I phrase the question so that I could distinguish between free choice and manipulative coercion ? |
| 26 | There is on record a confession of Cobden-Sanderson 's , who said of a failure to bind a copy of Tennyson 's In Memoriam to his satisfaction : ‘ I could spit upon the book , throw it out of the window , into the fire , upon the ground and grind it with my heel . ‘ |
| 27 | ‘ I could spit in your eye , ’ John says . |
| 28 | ‘ I could score on Wednesday and become a national hero , but a week after I could get into a little incident and it would be all over the back pages again and I 'm a villain . |
| 29 | I could bring along Bertie Alcott too . |
| 30 | Something I could bring to a decent conclusion . |