Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] could [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 2 | I could meet you somewhere where you could show me . |
| 3 | Erm what , what I said to you earlier was that er at the very beginning where you could help me was if , if you found this of value to you , this service that I 've just provided , erm perhaps you could erm th there might be er some friends of yours that er you might find that this might be of beneficial to . |
| 4 | You bought it as somewhere where you could keep me , and that 's something quite different . |
| 5 | ‘ Or you could ring me up , could n't you ? |
| 6 | Or he could say I was one |
| 7 | ‘ I was told , ’ Rab said , Winnie 's stinging remark , and it had stung him , ‘ that ye could fly me on a kite . ’ |
| 8 | I told her that I had finished constructing the new kite , and that she could help me test it in the wind . |
| 9 | Then she added with a light laugh , ‘ I do not think , Creggan , that you could stop me . ’ |
| 10 | Do you think that you could stop me ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You mean ’ , she said , ‘ that you could tell me what two times twenty-eight is ? ’ |
| 12 | How I wish that you could love me |
| 13 | so if you had a date in November that you could give me , time to get people together |
| 14 | well you remember er when we sat down this evening I said there was a couple of ways that you could help me , one of these ways was that er you might be able to introduce me to one or two of your friends and I can run through the same ideas with them . |
| 15 | Well I , I turned round and backed in so that you could see me here |
| 16 | ‘ What pleased me most about that , ’ he said , ‘ was that my mother knew about it before she died , so she could see I was getting somewhere . ’ |
| 17 | For some reason I thought it would be better just to go to her so she could see I was all right . ’ |
| 18 | How did you manage to persuade British Rail to allow you on to the train so you could drag me off ? ’ |
| 19 | That was just an excuse to throw us together so you could seduce me ! |
| 20 | I 'm not at my best in red , so you could say I was not on top of the world . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Is that why you spirited me off — so you could ask me personal questions ? ’ |
| 22 | So that I can go through my designs and make quite certain that there is not one collar , not one cuff detail , not the slightest influence that they could accuse me of copying from them . |
| 23 | But it was not until we were in the playground that they could tackle me . |
| 24 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 25 | I told most of the young women on the telephone that I 'd be wearing a battered black hat , so that they could find me easily . |
| 26 | The proud fighter who took every challenge , was overcome with fear that they could mock me with their chat , but delighted to be noticed . |
| 27 | I also took the opportunity of giving them Mr Connon 's phone number so they could contact me if they wished . |
| 28 | I daresay , ’ he added , in a confidential tone , ‘ that it could see I was no enemy . ’ |
| 29 | However , I soon discovered that it could help me in many other ways , for example to take all the hard work out of doing my accounts , producing invoices and keeping track of stock . |
| 30 | ‘ I could phone him with a problem and he had such insight that he could steer me through it , although he knew very little of the problems over here . ’ |