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If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.

Let's consider the worst that could happen.

If I could send you a marshmallow, Trang, I would.

I wish I could go to Japan.

How could I be a robot? Robots don't dream.

I wish I could care more about my grades but it seems that, at a certain point of my life, I decided they wouldn't be so important anymore.

Could you dial for me? The telephone is too high.

It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.

Mathematics is the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone.

It would be so cool if I could speak ten languages!

Before I was blind, I could see very well.

When I was young everybody could easily find a job in a matter of days.

When I was your age, I could run 10mi in under an hour.

I could only find the street, but I couldn't locate his house.

I think he could do it if he really wanted to.

I wish I could fly!

I'd have thought you could have done the dishes, at least.

Could I borrow your coat?

Could you proofread this email?

I wonder, you couldn't loan me the money, could you?

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

We could rearrange the time if you like.

You could try adding more salt to the soup.

I haven't could sleep.

When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.