Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was with him I was in a more or less permanent state of sexual excitement , and I could bring myself to orgasm just by looking at him , without the aid of hands . |
| 2 | Erm and really the only way I thought that I could prevent myself from doing anything like that was to kill myself in a very violent way because I |
| 3 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 4 | She was the first athlete that I could identify myself with ; she was always in the news . |
| 5 | The front area of the house , including our bedroom , was dry , and how I wished I could lock myself in there and pretend the rest was n't happening . |
| 6 | If I was n't going to enjoy a plethora of gifts and compliments , at least I could soak myself in a great comforting pool of self-pity . |
| 7 | I wish I could stop myself from having to have everything just right , ’ Sue admits . |
| 8 | I 'd be a lot happier if I could disentangle myself from What I 've already done and create songs from a completely fresh perspective . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If you just ring them up you can not understand the problems they face so I thought this would be a good way that I could use myself as a focus on their work . ’ |
| 10 | Oh to get away so I could exhaust myself with intense experiences , where everyone spoke of intense subjects and never said " pass the bread and butter . " |
| 11 | I could get myself into trouble with a colleague of yours in another town but er I am hopeful , so as I say , er on the seventeenth of January then we could be returning to the situation and I understand in nineteen seventy four when there was a sergeant and six constables here in until the demise of the Urban District Council when they were all moved to . |
| 12 | Or I got a garden , I could occupy myself in the garden . |
| 13 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 14 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 15 | Besides being the sun 's foster-mother , Mokosh could foretell the future , and she could change herself into any form she pleased , bird or fish or snake of the swamp . |
| 16 | A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy . |
| 17 | She could busy herself in the garden till then . |
| 18 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 19 | In silence they walked to the communal oven , and back , and she almost ran with the tray steaming with fragrant tomato and garlic to try to alert Rosa so she could prepare herself for his appearance . |
| 20 | Here , in her world , an icy wind was gathering force and malice , preparing to freeze the path beneath her feet , aim fierce arrows of hail and sleet at her cringing back , bury her — unless she could drag herself up St Jude 's Hill fast enough — in snow . |
| 21 | She could give herself to him . |
| 22 | By early habit she was a countrywoman , she could orientate herself by barely visible bulks and air currents and scents in the night , and she was not afraid to trust her feet in the irregularities of an unknown path . |
| 23 | As she danced she could lose herself in the movement . |
| 24 | She could lose herself in a place like this ; if not in the valley itself , then in some other part of the region . |
| 25 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 26 | Still , she could console herself with the knowledge that Luke , and all his complexities , would n't be impinging upon her life for much longer . |
| 27 | She tended to be over-indulgent with Victoria , partly because she could see herself in the child and partly too , in some perverse fashion , to make up for what she considered to be her own harsh upbringing under Jonadab 's strict rules . |
| 28 | And if the man were as confident of getting away with MacQuillan 's murder as Wickham believed him to be , she could put herself at risk . |
| 29 | Then her subtly coloured eyelids swept shut , blindness an instinctive need , as if by shutting Luke out of her vision she could barricade herself against the swoop of his mouth . |
| 30 | ‘ By so doing , you could place yourself in danger , my lady — that should be good reason enough . ’ |