Example sentences of "[pron] could afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could afford the naked women but not the naked scepticism , the carping and sniping and the public washing of dirty linen which represents freedom to an English editor . |
| 2 | I was disappointed to find that accommodation was scarcer and more expensive than I thought it would be and the best that I could afford was a large first-floor room in a bedsitter house on Ladbroke Grove . |
| 3 | Kit Kats were about all I could afford . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've always driven a Porsche ever since I could afford one . |
| 5 | I went out and bought the best turntables I could afford . |
| 6 | If I could afford it , I would buy some of their shirts and casual clothes , because often they 're much better made than the stuff for girls . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether I could afford all those leather jackets . |
| 8 | Though I do n't suppose I could afford to pay you as well as Mattli does — yet . |
| 9 | It was great to be working in one place for a few nights on the trot so that I could afford to go to that amount of trouble . ’ |
| 10 | I could afford to buy another one ! ’ |
| 11 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 12 | I played a couple of hundred sons-of-bitches on TV and was making some good money from it so I could afford to buy as much booze as I wanted . |
| 13 | After all , everything was sown and the harvest was still some weeks away , so I could afford a little time off . |
| 14 | In my first year in a London art school my two major preoccupations were whether you really could see William Turner 's late canvases as a precursor to French Impressionism , and how the hell I could afford to clothe myself in the right gear to make a stunning impact on my new friends at the Gateways . |
| 15 | Suffice it to say that if I could afford it , there would be pieces of bogwood where I have shown rocks at the back ! |
| 16 | This left me in a situation where I had to decide if I could afford to finance the aircraft on my own . |
| 17 | It was only by the grace of God I could afford to buy it . ’ |
| 18 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 19 | ‘ It was what worked , what would suit and what I could afford . ’ |
| 20 | Since I only had $11 on me , all I could afford was a blow-job . |
| 21 | That 's how I could afford my passage to England and this holiday . |
| 22 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 23 | Gerry worked for me , just for a while — days I could afford help . |
| 24 | He was n't hurt , but I was a fully fledged professor before I could afford another . |
| 25 | We spent a week 's honeymoon in Suffolk , which was all I could afford . |
| 26 | One of the biggest challenges was the fact that I had to work quite direct , once the colour was put on it was incredibly difficult to lift off completely and so I could afford to make very few mistakes . |
| 27 | I wish I could afford to stay at home — in fact I did for two years . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd leave now if I could afford it . |
| 29 | If I could afford it , I 'd go private . ’ |
| 30 | I could afford to miss that part of the picture , and turned back to Gloria . |