Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could manage was to haunt Rocamar like a beast with no heart . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 3 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 4 | What I could do is play a record but er I ca n't remember so bear with me for a moment . |
| 5 | If I did n't want it he would say that he was keeping me and the least I could do was give him sex . |
| 6 | If I was to spend race day reporting as a spectator , then the least I could do was arrive early and attempt the course myself . |
| 7 | But all I could do was remind people of John 's situation . |
| 8 | Look , at the most all I could do was bring whoever did it to trial . ’ |
| 9 | But — ’ she said , her voice suddenly bitter , ‘ I 'm not in a position to talk , since all I could do was run — eh ? |
| 10 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 11 | ‘ All I could do was shut my eyes and think of John Major . ’ |
| 12 | By next morning some stray cat had eaten much of his back , so all I could do was measure him . |
| 13 | All I could do was repeat the injections , but was it going to make the slightest difference ? |
| 14 | ‘ I realised he was n't going to be able to stop and all I could do was watch him come closer and closer to me . |
| 15 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 16 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 17 | So the least I could do was to get out and around looking for the guy . |
| 18 | The least I could do was agree to have dinner with him . ’ |
| 19 | The only thing I could do was discuss with her yet again the best way to express our case . |
| 20 | I was isn a relationship which I could feel was going wrong — in the same way that all my previous relationships had gone wrong . |
| 21 | I was turning to people I did n't know that well and confiding in them , and I could have been led down any garden path . |
| 22 | Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned . |
| 23 | I could have been killed . ’ |
| 24 | I could have been killed . |
| 25 | I think it 's outrageous as I could have been killed . |
| 26 | ‘ I was in the sitting room and I could have been killed if they had come through my side , ’ she said . |
| 27 | ‘ You mean I could have been discussing it with some of your clients , like the Contessa Mantero ? ’ |
| 28 | After all , I could have been beaten up because I hinted in the Daily News that there was something improper about the Harley/Supersight deal . ’ |
| 29 | I thought the S.S.O. seemed puzzled , but as the light was dim I could have been mistaken . |
| 30 | There was no mistaking his bulk , but I could have been fooled by Jo if I had n't known her . |