Example sentences of "i could [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it . |
| 2 | I could feel that the problem with David was very much a tremendous lack of application . |
| 3 | myself , I could feel that the order |
| 4 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 5 | Apart from the age of the property , I could tell that the bathroom wc of our refit had undergone some previous modernisation : the old high-level Burlington bell cistern had long been removed . |
| 6 | The tousled girl in front of me , she was reading a buxom magazine : its text was in French , I think , but even I could tell that the article she scanned was about fellatio technique — blowjob knowhow . |
| 7 | I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’ |
| 8 | Seven months on , how I wish I could say that the Escort/Orion range is at least going in the right direction . |
| 9 | I could say that the hon. Gentleman should ask one of his former hon. Friends because he has given a definition . |
| 10 | I had a whole lotta fun playing just about every megalithic riff I could remember and the Tribute came up smiling every time . |
| 11 | Last September I visited a garden which was nearly a thousand feet up , and I could see that the gladioli , planted as dormant corms in early May , were n't going to flower . |
| 12 | However I could see that the class was against me . |
| 13 | Looking at my arms I could see that the mosquitoes appeared to have had a field day . |
| 14 | I could see that the room was very sparsely furnished . |
| 15 | Beads of blood appeared along the cuts , which alarmed me , though at the same time I could see that the wounds were superficial . |
| 16 | Though I could see that the sun still lit the highest canopy , on the jungle floor it was already too late . |
| 17 | I could see that the picture had only just started . |
| 18 | His mum , Jacqueline , of Cardigan , said : ‘ When I bent down I could see that the metal mesh had been cutting in to his scalp . ’ |
| 19 | By the autumn of 1989 I could see that the work I was planning more breeding and lecturing , was going to get very costly . |
| 20 | Her eyes were shining ; I could see that the idea was important to her too . |
| 21 | But I could see that the moon above my head was really on the wane . |
| 22 | I could see that the old bull was not going to be forced to drink , and he protested by coming after my father-in-law who made for the post . |
| 23 | Siegfried was already seated and I could see that the little triumph of the morning had cheered him . |
| 24 | From the window I could see that the block on the far side to the right had had most of its front ripped off , and Eliot commented how odd and rather disturbing it was to see a bath on an upper storey sticking out into the void , as in a surrealist picture . |
| 25 | When I stood at the doorway , hesitating to dash into the pouring rain , I could see that the landscape had moved with the date . |
| 26 | Even at this distance , in the gloom , I could see that the thing on its head that looked like a plastic bucket actually was a plastic bucket . |