Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] could [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To know that somebody could read your mind , or move an object without touching it , seems unbelievable . |
| 2 | She blushed guiltily as she realised he had refused a sweet , opting just for coffee , but then , she doubted that anything could test his willpower and not lose . |
| 3 | This does not , however , mean that the peasantry were contented , nor does it prove that they were particularly prosperous ; rather it suggests that the peasantry found that they could secure their aims more effectively by passive resistance and the exploitation of their economic power than by violence . |
| 4 | Einstein found that he could extend his equation in only one way , by adding a term so that where A is a universal constant called the cosmological constant . |
| 5 | ‘ My own kind , ’ she replied , and getting ready to put a few questions from her list , she paused to smile — and found that he could find his questions faster . |
| 6 | So do you think that we could put our differences aside for just one evening ? |
| 7 | As soon as Lydia saw him she realised that she could have her picnic without putting her wicked plan into operation . |
| 8 | I realised that I could have her full attention as long as I caught her interest , and I could only do this by telling the truth , for she could no more be bothered with the niceties of drawing-room small-talk than could a fox . |
| 9 | He was coming to realize that she could hold her own under fire . |
| 10 | Er things got that he could make his mother , the other way round . |
| 11 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 12 | I was never really good at pretending that I could assume my client to be innocent because I or my instructing solicitor had been careful to ensure that he did n't actually confess . |
| 13 | The professor added that he could envisage his daughter having a worse husband . |
| 14 | Ecgfrith 's brother and successor , Aldfrith ( see Appendix , Fig. 6.2 ) , appears to have accepted that he could restore his kingdom only within narrower bounds ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 15 | I told him , however , that he would have to provide the list of guests since I did not feel that I could exploit my own list any further . |
| 16 | All through this time he hardly had any painkillers as it was very important he did n't feel that he could use his leg before it was strong enough . |
| 17 | She dreaded the onset of winter , and on waking this morning she had thought that she could smell its breath in the air . |
| 18 | I could n't believe that anyone could live their life and not be surrounded by brilliant objects and colours . |
| 19 | However , I do strongly suspect that he could change my perspective of reality so as to make it extremely difficult not to attack the person . |
| 20 | Yet the favours and appointments she showered on him must surely have given Bothwell reason to assume that he could interpret her secret wishes . |
| 21 | Guards were either abruptly mistrustful or effusively friendly when they discovered that you could speak their language . |
| 22 | Every effort is being made to persuade the Government to alter the present anomalous regulations and , in company with other charities , the Institution still fears that it could lose its existing zero-rating status after European harmonisation in 1992 . |
| 23 | The effect was instantaneous : Raby sent back a poem in the same rhyme-scheme saying that they could have their shelves . |
| 24 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 25 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 26 | Surere looked at him searchingly before , satisfied that he could place his trust here , and also in need of an audience , he began : |
| 27 | If you feel that you could interest your class members , family , friends etc into participation in this scheme please contact : |
| 28 | He had proved that he could maintain his force in the desert over a considerable length of time , which by air supply could easily be extended . |
| 29 | Before signalling that he could keep his job , Mr Mates , however , was quizzed by Downing Street about any links he had with Mr Nadir . |
| 30 | However , in the context of the fragile family economy of the very poor in the years before World War I , it should be remembered that if a wife earned only 1/6d a week it meant that she could feed her family for two days . |