Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew I could manage to stagger to my feet and find fresh kindling . |
| 2 | All I could manage in return was a sickly smile and a feeble , ‘ Thank you , Ma'am . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes I did n't even need it at all I could walk about shopping and everything . |
| 4 | ‘ Two months before the bullying started an appraisal seemed to say I could walk on water . |
| 5 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 6 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 7 | Oh there 's so much , I could do with Christmas at the . |
| 8 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 9 | Mind , I welcomed them with open arms because it meant I could stay off school . |
| 10 | If I did n't go I could stay at home and work on the house . |
| 11 | I could stay at home and try to write a novel . |
| 12 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 13 | I could switch from oil , which has a chemical background , to the chemical industry . |
| 14 | All I could think about while I was taking up that extraordinary inheritance was you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He was an MP whom I could lip-read without difficulty , ’ recalls Jack . |
| 16 | ‘ If I painted the sky , ’ she had said one day , ‘ I could go through life paintin' nothin' else for it 's always changin' . |
| 17 | I 'd be a complete idiot if I thought that I could go through life and not bounce into the occasional person who did n't have my welfare at heart , and I 'm no idiot . |
| 18 | At the flat there were drinks parties and little dinners every week , which irritated me , as I had to wait for everyone to finish filling the air with their thoughts on the latest novel before I could go to bed on the sofa . |
| 19 | I could go to bed early and it 's sort |
| 20 | ‘ You said I could go to work , ’ Claudia accused . |
| 21 | I could go to chapel if I agreed to be confirmed when I was older . |
| 22 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 23 | I could go to sleep |
| 24 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 25 | erm our main objective if I could start with education , which is erm the erm predominant service provided by the County , we were concerned to protect the delegated budgets to schools , particularly the primary and the secondary schools . |
| 26 | I 'd had more than enough of this place and its unnatural Matter ; now , perhaps , I could withdraw in safety . |
| 27 | So I could have for instance thirty two tape devices running in parallel to back up my database . |
| 28 | I was an insatiable reader , and whenever I did visit Father at one of his shops , I invariably managed to wheedle a couple of batteries out of him — so that I could read in bed under the bedclothes . |
| 29 | ‘ I could say without doubt that this lady would have been alive today if she had not taken drugs at that party . ’ |
| 30 | All I could say in reply was : ‘ What for ? ’ |