Example sentences of "could i [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could I sort out one little problem first ? |
| 2 | Could I give up , here ? |
| 3 | Could I move on from that Sir Frederick just to ask you whilst you 're on the phone your views on er the story in the Daily Mail today . |
| 4 | Erm , could I go on and look at er , the finance which I 've starred here . |
| 5 | Now , could I , could I go through , cos I 'd like , I 'd like to at some stage ask you to do an exercise on this just to see first of all how complicated it is and then , at the end , how simple it is . |
| 6 | If so , how could I go about finding it ? |
| 7 | ‘ Could I go back to Harwich ? ’ |
| 8 | Could I go back to something the lady here |
| 9 | Could I go back to three environmental group , please David , er I 've had er quite good news , Ford have agreed to er three diesel cars in their fleet for us to try . |
| 10 | Erm , could I go back to what Mr was saying , of course the main thing is , really that er , the difference in this budget and previous ones is that we are not paying projection costs million . |
| 11 | Yes but I remember , I can remember Edith phoning me and , and saying , you know she was going away , you know is , you know could I go down ? |
| 12 | How could I pass up a chance of hiring the most beautiful bargee in the solar system ? ’ |
| 13 | Nor could I shake off a feeling that Aunt Louise was sitting beside me , enjoying it too . |
| 14 | Could I sit down ? |
| 15 | ‘ How could I pay back a loan ? |
| 16 | Could I check out I I mean I 'm still not sure whether Harrogate are happy with sixty hectares at I five to meet their requirements , that was what I understood yesterday . |
| 17 | How could I live up to them when I got home ? |
| 18 | ‘ In that case , ’ she said with a little smile , ‘ how could I turn down your kind invitation ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Sir , could I come round to have a talk ? |
| 20 | Could I come down one weekend and build such a pond for her ? |
| 21 | ‘ Could I come in , please ? ’ , |
| 22 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 23 | Could I come back to the point about the twenty seven million passengers or some of I 'm not exactly , but I know it 's a lot , erm figure , it 's large number figure , as a num an extra number of cars . |
| 24 | Yes , could I come back on that . |
| 25 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 26 | But how could I get on to it ? |
| 27 | I mean , could I get in ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ How could I find out what he was doing between 1980 and 1982 ? ’ he asked . |
| 29 | Also , while I have the chance , could I point out that in spite of the FRCC guide crediting me with the first ascent of the bolt ladder route named Fiery Cross ( Dry Grasp ) on Upper Falcon Crag , it has nothing to do with me or B. Henderson , listed as my second . |
| 30 | Could I point out to members that we did have er written replies to try and speed up the question process , could I ask members both in asking the question and especially in answering , not to make it another speech occasion because otherwise it destroys the whole purpose of having the written replies . |