Example sentences of "i could come " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad said he 'd buy me a ticket to fly back to England and David said that he 'd pay him back because he 'd be very happy if I could come back and help him as he did n't really know how to deal with his mother 's grief . |
| 2 | There Was only one conclusion I could come to : heavier baits and indicators were too heavy for the bream to carry away with the bait sucked to the edge of their lips , so they had to grip with their lips to manage it . |
| 3 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 4 | One day she rang me to ask if I could come along on Saturday and help plant potatoes in the back yard ; ‘ Uncle John is far too busy at this time of the year ’ . |
| 5 | I could come back as Kylie Minogue 's bra , but that would leave me seriously unfulfilled . |
| 6 | It was pure good luck that someone dropped out so I could come this weekend — at least , I thought so at the time . ’ |
| 7 | I sent him a letter asking if I could come and talk to him . |
| 8 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |
| 9 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 10 | I would be happy to work either on the sales side , or in the accounts office ; perhaps I could come in and discuss any possibilities with you ? |
| 11 | Saying that he had a clinic the next day in Bala , and I could come to see him there if I liked . |
| 12 | The Working Party helped me to express my lesbianism in a positive way in that I could come out , and it helped me to deal with the suspicion and fears of colleagues Black and white , gay or straight , male or female . |
| 13 | If you would rather wait I could come back later , but it is , of course , important to lose as little time as possible . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I could come all over bitter and say that 's very noble and gallant of the President , especially as there 's no chance of his being blown out of his seat in the Oval Office when this little lot goes up , but I wo n't . |
| 15 | ‘ I should like to bury something precious in every place where I 've been happy , ’ Sebastian had once told him , after wine and strawberries on a summer hilltop , ‘ and then , when I was old and ugly and miserable , I could come back and dig it up and remember . ’ |
| 16 | A year later , I received a letter inviting me to lunch so that I could come and see his garden . |
| 17 | Since it is inevitable , I wish I could come to terms with it , but I find the only way I can cope at present is to avoid thinking about it . |
| 18 | I could come back and then |
| 19 | ‘ But at least I could come close to the song of electricity . |
| 20 | On one occasion I screwed up my courage to ask if I could come in at 9 p.m. instead , at which Harold looked puzzled and asked why . |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ but I could come to you if you like . ’ |
| 22 | Maybe I could come in and check it out while you wait in another room . ’ |
| 23 | He said , ‘ I could come with you . |
| 24 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 25 | Well when he said I could come it was er September . |
| 26 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 27 | " I wish I could come and stay in your hotel with you . |
| 28 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 29 | I asked whether I could come along too ; and Balvinder agreed . |
| 30 | I wondered if I could come over and see your h — see him some time ? ’ |