Example sentences of "i could [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could manage to lose five or six pounds and then I would break the diet , go back to normal food and put all the weight back on again . |
| 2 | I do n't know whether I could manage to make mad passionate love to anybody now . |
| 3 | otherwise , as you say , I could 've gone straight past here . |
| 4 | And he said yeah I said I could 've got two for the price of one . |
| 5 | I took a huge gulp of it — I could 've got drunk on it . |
| 6 | That I could 've got right . ’ |
| 7 | I was not up to sharing life with a man preoccupied , behind whose dead eyes I could detect hope stillborn . |
| 8 | I could attempt to lay all these theories before you impartially . |
| 9 | I could afford to miss that part of the picture , and turned back to Gloria . |
| 10 | I could afford to buy another one ! ’ |
| 11 | I could have saved some diesel and ‘ phoned . |
| 12 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 13 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 14 | I could have wept this morning when I opened the papers , I really could . |
| 15 | I WISH I COULD HAVE HEARD THAT . |
| 16 | I could have become fond of the bearded man even though he was the clumsiest chap I knew . |
| 17 | I could have eaten that . |
| 18 | I could have guessed that . |
| 19 | I could have prevented all this , he told himself despairingly . |
| 20 | ‘ I could have run faster but I did not have the confidence to go at 14 miles , ’ said Evans . |
| 21 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 22 | In the bathroom , Donna had segued clumsily from ‘ I could have danced all night ’ to ‘ I 'm getting married in the morning ’ , her attempts at a Cockney accent so ludicrous that normally Alex would have been falling about . |
| 23 | I could have gone mad , you know , but the tragedy is that during the courses a lot of them and I expect that the best time to learn is when you 're young and you 're more receptive . |
| 24 | When I finish I think I could have gone faster but during the race , it 's a different matter . |
| 25 | If I 'd have took that icing off that cake was as moist as anything , I could have re-marzipanned that |
| 26 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I could have done that on my own , ’ Laura confessed . |
| 28 | I could have done that or I could have done the instrumental album . |
| 29 | ‘ If I 'd had the sense to be frank with her last March , maybe I could have done that . |
| 30 | Did you think , Oh , of course , oh I could have done that , but |