My little cousin's best friends were beleaguering me to death and all I wanted to do was go home and bake my cookies
Could you please pass the butter?Bill could not catch the chicken, but Bob could.
I could have won one million dollars, had I won the lottery.
It's all too ethereal with not nearly enough changes in tempo or ideas.
One could debate the existence of an after life.
I wanted to vitiate his rule, but had to stick to it :)))