Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starving myself was dangerous and could eventually mean I might starve to death . |
| 2 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 3 | Yeah , and you could perhaps let me , let me have erm , let me have one of those little ones . |
| 4 | She could only tell me that Wesley 's father had left home when he was about six years old , that his mother had remarried and the boy now lived with her and his stepfather . |
| 5 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 6 | The last show of the tour was in Atlanta and I decided to give a little party for the singers and musicians and the crew and I tried to rent a banquet room at the hotel , but because it was Thanksgiving Weekend , they said they could only give me a suite . |
| 7 | I learned that sex without emotional involvement or more than a fleeting physical attraction was more sad than fulfilling and that ‘ getting even ’ could only motivate me for so long — particularly since my husband was blithely unaware that I was evening the score . |
| 8 | See people did n't have cars , and if it was now , they could only help me by bringing a horse to meet me or erm or a tractor if they half way . |
| 9 | I began to understand how , if I were his wife , this good , religious man could soon kill me , without feeling any guilt at all . |
| 10 | If you could just give me those descriptions again to refresh my memory ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Now if you could just untie me , I have a dental appointment and … ’ |
| 12 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 13 | ‘ If you could just get me some warm water I — ’ |
| 14 | If you could just get me to the nearest station — ’ |
| 15 | Yeah , no , yeah well you know , really manipulative , you know , he could just get me round his finger I suppose . |
| 16 | They said they could just hear me did n't they Meryl ? |
| 17 | So much so that I could easily believe I was dealing with a guitar that cost a lot more than this . |
| 18 | I wonder if you could possibly give me the address of the ‘ Dogs for the Disabled ’ charity , as I would like to send a donation but do n't know where to send it . |
| 19 | Suppose I 'm an industrialist listening to this programme , and I 've been very interested in what you 've been saying , and I feel that I 've got a problem that the University could possibly give me some advice on . |
| 20 | ‘ You are the only one who could possibly make me happy . ’ |
| 21 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 22 | Do you think you could possibly find me a small drink ? " |
| 23 | CAN YOU put me in touch with someone who could possibly get me a window wiper arm for a 1985 Fiat Strada 1300 ? |
| 24 | Earlier we mentioned that erm there were a couple of areas which if I was helpful to you you could possibly help me and one was obviously |
| 25 | She got up , went over to their table with the half-smoked stub , and said in her best BBC voice : " Excuse me , but I wonder whether you could possibly let me have a light ? |
| 26 | You may say that you could hardly trust me saying it because I 'm wealthy enough to be able to come here from Japan to study . |
| 27 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 28 | As we marched out of the station into the streets of Scarborough I could hardly believe I was back in Yorkshire . |
| 29 | She could still hurt me badly . ’ |
| 30 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |