Example sentences of "i could [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could manage tomorrow after surgery . |
| 2 | If I had a stick I could manage all right , really . ’ |
| 3 | But I could set up this magazine , I was good at that sort of thing . |
| 4 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 5 | Any more and I could set up shop ! ’ |
| 6 | Ahm so I 'm going to see if I could set up a baby sitting circle or something like that . |
| 7 | Yeah , I 'd run a creche erm help out you know , be part of a , part of a thing or I could set up some my own |
| 8 | It meant that instead of guessing that the presence of a red spot or the flicking of a tail was acting as a threat signal or a courtship display , I could set about proving it . |
| 9 | I could 've actually drawn this quite differently and maybe one of the carbons of on the side yeah ? |
| 10 | I could pass on a message for you . ’ |
| 11 | Up and up we went and when I could walk no longer he lay me down and covered me with kisses and love bites . |
| 12 | And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier , and the book had suddenly reached the stage — the wonderful moment to get to — where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created , and listen to people talking and watch them moving , all apparently independent of me . |
| 13 | I could walk right out of here and right out of this situation . |
| 14 | It was very easy , I could walk up to Ravelston nine holes , walk back in time . |
| 15 | As soon as I could walk straight , I got out . |
| 16 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
| 17 | Then I could walk home in daylight , but at bedtime I still searched my room for the murderer , who wore a black leather built-up surgical boot that swung and lurched down thick-pile carpets towards his victims . |
| 18 | said of driving all the way back round to collect them , he said I could walk down to the Jolly Farmers |
| 19 | I felt rather miserable , but at least I could walk about now , in a two-metre circle . |
| 20 | I could walk out this minute , this very minute , if it was n't for Emma . |
| 21 | All the shops and cafés were sheltered under the arcades , and I found I could walk almost the entire length and breadth of the village under cover . |
| 22 | But I was glad when the dinner was over , and Herbert and I could walk quietly back to our rooms together . |
| 23 | There was no way I could bring up children there . |
| 24 | There was no way I could bring up young children there . |
| 25 | Who did I think I was imagining glibly that I could bring up a child all by myself ? |
| 26 | I dressed in black to reduce the chance of being seen and could n't believe my luck when I found that the house opposite his was unoccupied , with big bushes in the front garden that I could hide behind . |
| 27 | I had an idea I could hide out there for a while , maybe rest up , maybe make a connection who could get me out of the City . |
| 28 | I could lean forward till my head was between my metatarsals and they 'd still need a zoom lens to catch even a hint of Page 3 . |
| 29 | A hoist up and I could lean over |
| 30 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |