Example sentences of "[noun] that he could [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a bonus that he could do it by way of Eloise Brückner 's bed . |
| 2 | I preserved the worm in alcohol and despatched it to Dr Herring in the hope that he could identify it ; I 'll be interested to find out exactly what it is . |
| 3 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 4 | Luther Reynolds clenched the sides of the chair , his large fists curling and uncurling , and his fiery dark eyes glaring at the determined face of David Miller , the stepson he had come to resent with such bitterness that he could taste it . |
| 5 | Sequestered that weekend in sealed hotel rooms , without television , the jurors themselves could not enjoy it ; but the trial judge comforted the prosecutor , who was growing anxious about the delay , with the thought that he could watch it if he wanted , to pass the time . |
| 6 | It came to Paul that he could watch it advancing from the roof of the hall . |
| 7 | Apparently the body , his body was making too much blood and the only way that he could release it was by building , by nosebleeds it do n't make sense does it ? |