Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , at the most all I could do was bring whoever did it to trial . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 've been concentrating on my technique , so soon I could try working straight on to the plate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was somewhere in the middle , jog-trotting laboriously with the rest and wondering how much longer I could keep going . |
| 6 | so still I could hear each set of ripples |
| 7 | Perhaps now I could make my own bread ! |
| 8 | Said only the once , but in memory so deep I could analyse each syllable . |
| 9 | So maybe I could tempt you to settle for a mere lifetime with me , Caroline ? ’ |
| 10 | Eventually I had the other repeat to make the three parts , so then I could make harmonies by playing along with the tape . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well not even I could heard them I was in the second row . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | When we look when we look upwards in eclipse what you can actually see if if you can imagine that 's a circular quite like an if I was really together I could have made a circular |
| 16 | Far , far away I could hear the slow , grinding sounds of traffic — but muffled , as if I were wearing earplugs . |
| 17 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 18 | You get a storage jar with that one as well so I could keep filling it up fr from |
| 19 | So I thought well perhaps I could make a basket then . |
| 20 | Well also I could think of |
| 21 | ‘ Well maybe I could start another band . |
| 22 | Now , that 's really great to me because I mean , you 're really stimulating the youngsters at that age , and quite obviously I could tell you loads of stories the way this neighbourhood engineers er er , scheme works at the moment but as I say we are embarrassed at the moment because , quite obviously , loads of school want us to participate but we got a very shortage of engineers . |
| 23 | I 'd like to try living here , see how long I could stand it . |
| 24 | I was whirling it round and round — I was getting tireder and tireder and wondering how long I could go on … |
| 25 | I was sixteen without a care in the world and my only thoughts at that time were on how soon I could get hold of my own barrow . |
| 26 | So , back to the typing I knew I would go , but at least now I could see an end to it . |
| 27 | I always wanted to get out and practise , to see how far I could go . |
| 28 | Next Derek came up with the bright idea of making me walk to see how far I could get . |
| 29 | I felt wonderful , and it was at that moment that I realised that if I started taking my athletics seriously , if I started training properly , if I started listening to Ron , then maybe I could do something in the sport . |
| 30 | ‘ Then maybe I could get a fridge on hire purchase . ’ |